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From: BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Limiting # characters in textarea
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:57:45 -0400
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In article <ku6i1b$rdl$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Twayne <nobody@spamcop.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=3Dtext pattern=3D"^[\w\W]{0,50}$" maxlength=3D50></textarea>

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