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Re: [PHP] Limiting character input in </span></a></span> </h1> <p class="darkgray font13"> <span class="sender pipe"><a href="/search?l=php-general@lists.php.net&q=from:%22Philip+Thompson%22" rel="nofollow"><span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Philip Thompson</span></span></a></span> <span class="date"><a href="/search?l=php-general@lists.php.net&q=date:20041116" rel="nofollow">Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:26:42 -0800</a></span> </p> </div> <div itemprop="articleBody" class="msgBody">  <pre style="margin: 0em;">On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:59 AM, Garth Hapgood - Strickland wrote:</pre><br> <blockquote style="border-left: #5555EE solid 0.2em; margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em"><tt>Unlike the input fields that use maxlength to define the number of character<br> allowed. Textarea doesnt seem to have that capability. I want to limit the<br> number of character to 255.</tt><br> <br> <tt>IS there any way of doing this without having to break my neck about it?</tt><br> <br> <tt>Garth </tt></blockquote><pre style="margin: 0em;"><br>Garth,</pre><br> <tt>This has to be done with JavaScript or some client-side scripting language. I use this exact thing for a textarea and it works rather well. I want to restrict the user to 255 characters, so here's what I do:</tt><br> <br> <pre style="margin: 0em;">[code] -- in javascript --</pre><br> <pre style="margin: 0em;"><script type="text/javascript"></script></pre><br> <pre style="margin: 0em;">-- in html --</pre><br> <tt><textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="45" onkeydown="textCounter(this.form.comments, this.form.remainingLength, 255);" onkeyup="textCounter(this.form.comments, this.form.remainingLength, 255);"></textarea></tt><br> <br> <tt><br />Characters remaining: <input readonly type="text" name="remainingLength" size="5" maxlength="3" value="255" /></tt><br> <br> <pre style="margin: 0em;">[/code]</pre><br> <tt>The the input text box does is just keep a counter of how much characters they have remaining. It's only function is to indicate to the user how much they have left.</tt><br> <br> <pre style="margin: 0em;">Hope that helps. ~Philip</pre><br> <pre style="margin: 0em;">-- PHP General Mailing List (<a href="http://www.php.net/">http://www.php.net/</a>) To unsubscribe, visit: <a href="http://www.php.net/unsub.php">http://www.php.net/unsub.php</a></pre><br></pre><pre> </div> <div class="msgButtons margintopdouble"> <ul class="overflow"> <li class="msgButtonItems"><a class="button buttonleft " accesskey="p" href="msg156915.html">Previous message</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="c" href="thrd13.html#156942">View by thread</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textaligncenter"><a class="button" accesskey="i" href="mail14.html#156942">View by date</a></li> <li class="msgButtonItems textalignright"><a class="button buttonright " accesskey="n" href="msg156913.html">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <a name="tslice"></a> <div class="tSliceList margintopdouble"> <ul class="icons monospace"> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg156911.html">[PHP] Limiting character input in <textarea&...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Garth Hapgood - Strickland</span></li> <li><ul> <li class="icons-email"><span class="subject"><a href="msg156915.html">Re: [PHP] Limiting character input in <...</a></span> <span class="sender italic">Richard Davey</span></li> <li class="icons-email tSliceCur"><span class="subject"></span> <span class="sender italic">Philip Thompson</span></li> </ul> </ul> </div> <div class="overflow msgActions margintopdouble"> <div class="msgReply" > <h2> Reply via email to </h2> <form method="POST" action="/mailto.php"> <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="Re: [PHP] Limiting character input in <textarea>"> <input type="hidden" name="msgid" value="ABEA9154-37DA-11D9-ADC5-000393C795C4@uark.edu"> <input type="hidden" name="relpath" value="php-general@lists.php.net/msg156942.html"> <input type="submit" value=" Philip Thompson "> </form> </div> </div> </div> <div class="aside" role="complementary"> <div class="logo"> <a href="/"><img src="/logo.png" width=247 height=88 alt="The Mail Archive"></a> </div> <form class="overflow" action="/search" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="l" value="php-general@lists.php.net"> <label class="hidden" for="q">Search the site</label> <input class="submittext" type="text" id="q" name="q" placeholder="Search php-general"> <input class="submitbutton" name="submit" type="image" src="/submit.png" alt="Submit"> </form> <div class="nav margintop" id="nav" role="navigation"> <ul class="icons font16"> <li class="icons-home"><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li class="icons-list"><a href="/php-general@lists.php.net/">php-general - all messages</a></li> <li class="icons-about"><a href="/php-general@lists.php.net/info.html">php-general - about the list</a></li> <li class="icons-expand"><a href="/search?l=php-general@lists.php.net&q=subject:%22Re%5C%3A+%5C%5BPHP%5C%5D+Limiting+character+input+in+%3Ctextarea%3E%22&o=newest&f=1" title="e" id="e">Expand</a></li> <li class="icons-prev"><a href="msg156915.html" title="p">Previous message</a></li> <li class="icons-next"><a href="msg156913.html" title="n">Next message</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="listlogo margintopdouble"> <a href="#"><img src="/php-general@lists.php.net/logo.png" alt="php-general"></a> </div> <div class="margintopdouble"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> <ul> <li><a href="/">The Mail Archive home</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html#newlist">Add your mailing list</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html#support">Support</a></li> <li><a href="/faq.html#privacy">Privacy</a></li> <li class="darkgray">ABEA9154-37DA-11D9-ADC5-000393C795C4@uark.edu</li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>