max Limit on textarea

How to put a max limit in the amount of characters entered into the textarea? I tried with MAXLENGTH attribute, but it didnot work.
Any help will be rally appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Oct 13 '06 #1

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Arielle

I don't think there's a way to do it with the straight HTML, I think you need to use a javascript function. Something akin to...

<html>
<head>
<script language="Javascript">
function tooLong(strTest,maxLength)
{
if(strTest.value.length > maxLength)
{
strTest.value = strTest.value.substr(0,50);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<form>
<textarea name="myText" onChange="tooLong(this,50)"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Or something like that. You could also add something like "Characters Remaining".

Oct 13 '06 #2

drhowarddrfine

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<textarea cols="number of columns">
This should be done with css but I don't recall how. I'll look into it.

Oct 13 '06 #3

drhowarddrfine

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As it turns out, there isn't one.

Oct 13 '06 #4

Arielle

<textarea cols="number of columns">
This should be done with css but I don't recall how. I'll look into it.

That limits the visible size of the textarea but doesn't control how many characters can be entered at all. You can cause a textarea to scroll for a million years if you wanted to... and despite the fact that you can add a maxlength attribute to the textarea not all browsers recognize it so it's glitchy at best. My solution won't even really work if they have javascript turned off.

Oct 13 '06 #5

2jdesign

<input name="textfield" type="text" value="" size="25" maxlength="20">

Try this, think this is wht you mean. (you will need to change the max length to however many characters you want to allow.

Oct 13 '06 #6

jaymanson

Here's another script which also gives the user a little counter to see how many characters they have left to use - may come in handy :-)

Javascript Source

Oct 13 '06 #7

swarnap

My problem is fixed.Thanks a lot to everyone.

Oct 16 '06 #8

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