Maximum characters in form

[webconstructor-Gary webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Does anyone know how to limit the number of characters a customer can enter into a text form?

[Dwayne Epps]

Yes, this is an example code snippet:
<input type="text" name="first_name" maxlength="30">
Just enter the number of characters you want to use in the maxlength. Hope
this helps.
-D-


"webconstructor-Gary" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how to limit the number of characters a customer can

enter into a text form?

>
>

[webconstructor-Gary webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I must be missing something here. The only options I see are for Char Width, and Num Lines.

The Character Width limits the number of characters per line, and the num lines limits the number of lines that are visible, but a customer can continue to type his entry, and scroll for full view. I want to prevent them from entering in more than a specific number of characters.

Can you tell me where this entry is, I do not see it anywhere in properties, nor in behaviors.

Thanks

[webconstructor-Gary webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thanks Dwayne, This does work well for a single line box, unfortunately, I can not figure out what I am doing wrong to make it work in a multi-line box. My current code is as follows:

<textarea name="Book-Set-Description-Tenth-Item" cols="40" id="Book-Set-Description-Tenth-Item"></textarea></td>

Any ideas?

[lebisol webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

<textarea name="Book-Set-Description-Tenth-Item" cols="40" rows="5" id="Book-Set-Description-Tenth-Item"></textarea>

[Unregistered]

Does anyone know how to limit the number of characters a customer can enter into a text form?

Well if you are talking how to limit no. of charatcter in any field for any customer, you can use following javascript code in the "onKeyPress" event of that field(this code is for a a limit of 50 character)

if(document.forms[0].innertext.length>=50)
{
event.returnValue= false;
window.status="You can not enter more than 50 characters"
}