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Textbox maxlength..... Why doesnt that ever work???

Anyone have a solution for being able to set a max char limit for a
textarea?

Nov 18 '05 #1

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Andrew de la Harpe

This is not a ASP.NET issue.
HTML textarea elements do not have a maxlength property.
You need to add some client code to handle this.
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Anyone have a solution for being able to set a max char limit for a
textarea?

Nov 18 '05 #2

Andrew de la Harpe

This is not a ASP.NET issue.
HTML textarea elements do not have a maxlength property.
You need to add some client code to handle this.
A

"Darren Clark" <dc******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uy***************@news-server.bigpond.net.au...

Anyone have a solution for being able to set a max char limit for a
textarea?

Nov 18 '05 #3

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