Textarea maximum exceeded

[RICHARD BROMBERG]

I have a small ASP program ( http://www.dickbrom.com/aspsend/ ) that
accepts data from a Form and e-mails it.
The form has a Textarea ( <TEXTAREA NAME="MessageBig" ROWS=10 COLS=50>
</TEXTAREA> ).

If you enter too many characters in the textarea the Submit button does not
function.

Is it possible to set a maximum number of characters or possibly truncate
anything over a fixed number to fix this problem.

I do not want to use Javascript.

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Nope... you will have to do a length/count on it when it comes in and
manually validate it.

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"RICHARD BROMBERG" <di******@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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I have a small ASP program ( http://www.dickbrom.com/aspsend/ ) that
accepts data from a Form and e-mails it.
The form has a Textarea ( <TEXTAREA NAME="MessageBig" ROWS=10 COLS=50>
</TEXTAREA> ).

If you enter too many characters in the textarea the Submit button does
not function.

Is it possible to set a maximum number of characters or possibly truncate
anything over a fixed number to fix this problem.

I do not want to use Javascript.

[Lasse Edsvik]

truncate:

a=request.form("a")
a=left(a,100)

/Lasse

"RICHARD BROMBERG" <di******@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:s0********************@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

I have a small ASP program ( http://www.dickbrom.com/aspsend/ ) that
accepts data from a Form and e-mails it.
The form has a Textarea ( <TEXTAREA NAME="MessageBig" ROWS=10 COLS=50>
</TEXTAREA> ).

If you enter too many characters in the textarea the Submit button does not function.

Is it possible to set a maximum number of characters or possibly truncate
anything over a fixed number to fix this problem.

I do not want to use Javascript.

[Dave Anderson]

RICHARD BROMBERG wrote:

The form has a Textarea ( <TEXTAREA NAME="MessageBig" ROWS=10
COLS=50> </TEXTAREA> ).

If you enter too many characters in the textarea the Submit button
does not function.

I don't believe this. The submit button does not care what is in the
TEXTAREA. But looking at your form, I can see that you are using GET instead
of POST, which is certainly the cause of your problem:

"When using the get method to send data to an HTTP server, the amount
of data that can be sent is limited by the maximum length of a URL.
In this case the URL cannot be longer than 2048 bytes."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ies/method.asp

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[RICHARD BROMBERG]

Thanks one and all .

It's working fne now.
"RICHARD BROMBERG" <di******@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:s0********************@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

I have a small ASP program ( http://www.dickbrom.com/aspsend/ ) that
accepts data from a Form and e-mails it.
The form has a Textarea ( <TEXTAREA NAME="MessageBig" ROWS=10 COLS=50>
</TEXTAREA> ).

If you enter too many characters in the textarea the Submit button does
not function.

Is it possible to set a maximum number of characters or possibly truncate
anything over a fixed number to fix this problem.

I do not want to use Javascript.

[Dave Anderson]

RICHARD BROMBERG wrote:

Thanks one and all .

It's working fne now.

Have you fixed the whitespace problem with your TEXTAREA? In case you were
unaware, the browser renders everything between the opening and closing
tags, including whitespace. In your case, you had a line break and some
indentation.

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