.cfg files (textarea)

TeamSite_Smasher

how can i limit the maximum chars allowable in a textarea.

i tried maxlength, but it doesnt seem to be working...

it works for text, but not textarea... i looked at the docs and see cols and rows, but no maxlength..

is this possible?
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Jamik

That's because html textarea has no maxlength. If you want maxlength on a textarea you have to use javascript to check the length on the textarea everytime someone tries a keypress on the field. I don't think there's an onkeypress event in the formapi unless someone knows of a way to apply a onkeypress event to the form field.

Alternatively (and probably what you'll wind up doing) you could also check when the field changes to do a length check and reduce the length to the max length. You could also perform some check when a user tries to save the form and if the field is too big you can reduce the size then and/or throw some message to the user.