[thelist] maxlength on textarea? using JS?

[Matthew Fischer]

This works, obviously you could change when it's checked from the onChange to onSubmit for the form or onKeyup, etc.


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

function tooLong() {

    if (document.pageForm.Babble.value.length > 255) {
    alert('Please limit your babble to 255 characters.');
    document.pageForm.Babble.focus();
    
    }
    
}

//-->
</SCRIPT>

<textarea name="Babble" onChange="tooLong()">Enter up to 255 characters of Babble here</textarea>

On 9/28/00 at 12:41 PM, roselli at earthlink.net (aardvark) wrote:

> 
> i know you can't have a 'maxlength' on a text area... and yes, we 
> are going to do a check server-side for people without JS enabled...
> 
> but for usability purposes, anyone have any JS handy that can tell 
> the user that he/she has exceeded, say, 255 characters in a 
> textarea with a JS alert?  for IE and NN 4+?  if not, then IE4+?
> 
> anyone?
> 
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