RES: [Javascript] Maxlength on textarea in XHTML

Flavio Gomes flavio at economisa.com.br
Thu Apr 14 14:20:48 CDT 2005


JS is needed because the maxlength property of a textarea doesnt 
exits/works by default like it does to "text" type "input" fields/tags.

-- 
Flavio Gomes
flavio at economisa.com.br



Shawn Milo wrote:

>I believe that this won't work, because it requires the maxLength to
>be set in each textarea, which the OP, I believe, wanted to avoid.
>
>Anyway, if you set the maxLength in each textarea, then why bother adding JS?
>(objTA.value.length>=objTA.maxLength) can never be true, except for
>the = part, which would make no difference.
>
>Milo
>
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