[thelist] Textarea

[Joshua OIson]

You can do it via javascript:

function countChars(obj, len)
{
  if (obj.value.length >= len) obj.value = obj.value.substring(0,len);
  document.all[obj.name + 'Count'].innerText = obj.value.length;
  return (obj.value.length < len) ? true : false;
}

<TEXTAREA name="intro" onkeyup="return countChars(this, 250)"></TEXTAREA>

This works with IE 4.0+ and maybe others, though I doubt it.

-joshua

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Salvatore Palmisano" <spalmisano at usaiss.com>
Subject: [thelist] Textarea


: Is there any way to set the MAXLENGTH property of the textarea tag?
: Simply adding MAXLENGTH=x to the tag doesnt seem to do anything.
: Is this possible?
: 
: Thanks.
: --Sal