How to use innerhtml to segregate the html tags in a textarea from the text.

Kani

My main task is that i am having textarea in DCT where its text can contain HTMl tags in textarea and that text should not have more than 256characters excluding Html tags from that text in textarea.
I am trying to do that by call javascript function and then use innerHtml but its not working. Is there any other method for doing that.
pls help me in solving that with any idea..
thanks in advance.

ISCBorisB

My main task is that i am having textarea in DCT where its text can contain HTMl tags in textarea and that text should not have more than 256characters excluding Html tags from that text in textarea. I am trying to do that by call javascript function and then use innerHtml but its not working. Is there any other method for doing that. pls help me in solving that with any idea.. thanks in advance.

With little hacking it is certainly possible to get "Raw" Item's innerHtml. Unfortunately it won't help you.

innerHtml or no innerHtml, Item's value contains full entry, html Tags including. Depending on the mechanism
that you (will) use to obtain this value it may be true html fragment or be represented as text (escaped).

If I were you I would use plain vanilla FormAPI to obtain the value and then use JS regular expressions
to get/count only what's needed.