Maxlength Property

[PBS2]

I have a singleline textbox in which I want to restrict the entry to 11 characters. I have tried setting the MaxLength prperty of the textbox to 11. However, when I do this I cannot enter more than 3 characters into the textbox??

Can anyone tell me why this might be please.

 

[vbkris]

thats strange, can u do a view source and see what HTML output is generated for the textbox???

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[PBS2]

This is the HTML for the text box:-

<TD style="WIDTH: 161px"><asp:textbox id="txtSMSUsername" runat="server" CssClass="StdTextBox" MaxLength="11"></asp:textbox></TD>

Does this give you any clues?

 

[vbkris]

what about the HTML that it is outputting (ie in the browser???)

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[PBS2]

Sorry vbkris I am new to asp.net so am not sure how to check the HTML output in the browser. How do I check this for you?

 

[vbkris]

in the browser do a right click, a "View source" options must be there (IE)...

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[PBS2]

I have now fixed the problem with Maxlength - I was populating the textbox with the value from a table including trailing spaces. Consequently the trailing spaces were included in the Maxlength calculation. So when I tried to amend a 3 character Username to make it longer it would not let me because it thought it was already 11 characters (as it had included the trailing spaces). So I now Trim the value taken from the table. Sorry to waste your time.