textarea character limits --- has this changed ?

nipper

So this *used* to work. now is failing.

validation-regex="^(.|\n){0,500}$"
I have also tried
validation-regex="^[\s\S]{0,500}$"

Now (6.7.2, Win2K, IE7) I get error opening DCR value of attribute "validation-regex"... must not contain the '<' character (which it doesn't)

Remove or escape the $ and it opens (though the regex does not work). I tried UTF-8 encoding the $, which failed as well.

Tips/pointers/RTFMs appreciated.

Adam Stoller

So this *used* to work. now is failing. validation-regex="^(.|\n){0,500}$" I have also tried validation-regex="^[\s\S]{0,500}$" Now (6.7.2, Win2K, IE7) I get error opening DCR value of attribute "validation-regex"... must not contain the '<' character (which it doesn't) Remove or escape the $ and it opens (though the regex does not work). I tried UTF-8 encoding the $, which failed as well. Tips/pointers/RTFMs appreciated.

Not sure what's happening - but frankly I think you'd be better off just doing the validation with FormAPI - especially if this is a WYSIWYG text area where you may want to strip out all the HTML tags before trying to determine the resultant character count.

However, I have to wonder whether there's some other syntactic glitch in your DCT that's causing the error you are seeing using the validation-regex.