You can't do it with HTML directly.
Most people use JavaScript handlers to do this.
<script>
function checkStuffLength(aField) {
if (aField.value.length > 1024) {
alert('sorry, only 1024 characters allowed in field '+aField.name);
aField.value = aField.value.substr(1,1024);
}
}
</script>
<textarea name=myStuff onchange="checkStuffLength(this)"
onblur="checkStuffLength(this)"></textarea>
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen, Prem Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 1:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HTML Q: length validation in a textarea field
I am not sure if I can pose this Q here...
One of my jsps has a textarea field that should accept a max of 1024
characters.
I am able to set this in a text field using <checked maxlength="" >
How do I do it using textarea?
TIA
Prem
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