Enforce Maxlength on Textarea

[florida1987]

For a textarea how do I limit the number of characters in the box to 500?

For input text I can set to maxlength and limit the entry in the input: <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="myInfo" MAXLENGTH=500>
For textarea I assume I need to create a validation or something to fetch the length of the field and stop the entry after 500 characters. Please advise how this can be done.

if(form.myInfo.value.length() > 500)
{
   //how would I stop the length in the textarea here?
}

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You can either do a count of characters in the "value" on "keypress", or you could check when the form is submitted (client- and server-side validation). I've used both in the past, and both work well.

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I suppose looking at the other posts in this forum would also help... this one is currently a few below your post:

thread216-1471126

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