Re: Limiting # characters in textarea

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In article <ku6i1b$rdl$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net>
wrote:

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> 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 Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-10 16:54 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-08-10 17:11 -0600
    Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-10 19:23 -0400
      Re: Limiting # characters in textarea BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2013-08-10 21:57 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-10 19:23 -0400
    Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-12 13:43 -0400
      Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-12 18:13 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-08-10 19:36 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2013-08-10 20:52 -0400
    Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-12 13:48 -0400
  Re: Limiting # characters in textarea Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2013-08-11 16:39 +0000

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