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Re: Limiting # characters in textarea [message #182534 is a reply to message #182531]

Sun, 11 August 2013 01:57

BootNic
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In article <ku6i1b$rdl$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org>, Twayne <nobody(at)spamcop(dot)net>
wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

For Opera one could add an invalid pattern attribute. Opera will still not
truncate the input, but it will prevent the form from submitting.

<textarea name=text pattern="^[\w\W]{0,50}$" maxlength=50></textarea>

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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
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		Re: Limiting # characters in textarea By: bill on Mon, 12 August 2013 17:48
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