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Re: Limiting # characters in textarea [message #182531 is a reply to message #182529]

Sat, 10 August 2013 23:23

bill
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On 2013-08-10 7:11 PM, Martin Leese wrote:
> Twayne wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Win 7, XAMPP Local Server, PHP 5.3. Target; Online Submitted Forms for
>> the general public:
>>
>> I am trying to come up with a way to force a limit to the length of a
>> textarea.
> ...
>> I discovered maxlength has been added to HTML 5 but many people aren't
>> using HTML 5 compatibility yet.
>
> Yes, but are they using maxlength?
> Maxlength has been allowed in <input> tags
> since HTML 4 (1999), so my guess that all
> modern browsers also use it with <textarea>.
> However, this is only a guess.
>

Unfortunately, no, maxlength does not work on textarea. It was added to
HTML 5 but not all browsers will honor it, Opera in particular. Thus my
quest for a way to mimic it.

Twayne`

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		Limiting # characters in textarea By: bill on Sat, 10 August 2013 20:54
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: Martin Leese on Sat, 10 August 2013 23:11
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: bill on Sat, 10 August 2013 23:23
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: BootNic on Sun, 11 August 2013 01:57
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: Norman Peelman on Sat, 10 August 2013 23:23
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: bill on Mon, 12 August 2013 17:43
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: Norman Peelman on Mon, 12 August 2013 22:13
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 10 August 2013 23:36
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: Richard Damon on Sun, 11 August 2013 00:52
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: bill on Mon, 12 August 2013 17:48
		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: Allodoxaphobia on Sun, 11 August 2013 16:39

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