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Limiting Textarea Text

Friday August 8, 2008
JavaScript can add the functionality missing from HTML.

You can easily specify the amount of text that can be entered into an input field using the maxlength attribute. There is no equivalent attribute for textarea fields and so to limit the amount of text entered there we need a different solution.

Limiting Textarea Text
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