Any limit in specifying the maxlength for a textarea

Hi All,

In my project requirement we are using HTML code inside the textarea as
the Visual Format Editor takes time while loading.
So i have currently specified the maxlength to be 20k as below.
textarea cols="75" maxlength="20000" rows="10" wrap="off"
But i have a doubt whether there is limit for the maxlength specification in textarea.

Regards
Gomathy

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romil_rose

You may want to check what ghoti said here

GOMATHY

Here ghoti refers to Textarea with Visual-format editor but my case is a
textarea .So is there any limitation in the maximum number of characters it can hold.

romil_rose

Same holds true for simple Textarea also. You can cause a textarea to scroll for a million years if you wanted to...

GOMATHY

I think you are not able to understand what i am specifying.Yes i can understand that for maxlength specification regex has to be used and maxlength can't be used .But is there any limit or restriction on the maximum number of characters a textarea can hold.

dazzlad

Nope, guess you'd have to restrict it with some formAPI.

romil_rose

lets see if I get it correctly. You want to know :
1. whether there is any limitations on the number of characters which can be entered in a textarea, or
2. how to restrict the number of characters to be entered in a textarea.

for 1:
As far as my knowledge, there is not limit on the number of characters which a textarea can hold. But if you entered too many characters in one textarea then it will impact the memory usuage. The page contaning that textarea will load very slow (sometime can crash also.)

for 2:
You can use something like: validation-regex="^[\s\S]{0,100}$"