[Webdev] textareas (bah)

[Adam Beecher]

William,

You could do it in the backend - you should anyway, because JS should never be
relied upon - but the simplest solution in my mind would be to go to one of the
SMS sites, retrieve one of the scripts from there, and make the "horrible
downcounting text box" a hidden input (or remove it altogether). www.mtnsms.com
is one, but that's a registration-only affair. There's a new free one though - I
think it's at www.smsboy.com.

HTH,
adam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: webdev-admin at linux.ie [mailto:webdev-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> William Murphy
> Sent: 12 November 2000 15:51
> To: webdev at linux.ie
> Subject: [Webdev] textareas (bah)
>
>
> hi all,
>
> it's come to my attention that html offers no facility to specify a
> maximum input size for a textarea.
> I've seen a few javascript workarounds, none of which seem to work, and
> due to a lack of knowledge of javascript I can't really hack at it
> myself.
> Anyone got a nice simple script that does it without any horrible
> downcounting text boxes or anything?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> William Murphy
> alias at eircom.net
>
>
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