HTML textarea maxlength
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| Posey | # Posted yesterday |
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Hello everyone, I'm trying to apply a maxlength property to my <textarea> element but the character count (checked in real time through Javascript) doesn't match with what is being entered.For debugging purposes I added rows and columns to my textarea but it doesn't really tell me where my problem is located or why the field is behaving that way. Here is my code. <textarea name="text" rows="9" cols="55" maxlength="495"></textarea>I have my 9 lines and 55 columns, except that in the last line I cannot enter more than 39 characters out of 55, 476 characters out of 495 in total. Do you have any idea why it's behaving that way. |
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| Celeri | # Posted two hours ago |
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Careful, chariot returns (CRLF) are included in the maxlength. |
| Posey | # Posted one hour ago |
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Aaaaah, I knew it was a stupid error! I blame lack of sleep :) Out of curiosity I ran into another question during the debugging... if I change the limit to maxlength="495", so that I can enter my 495 characters (8 carriage returns for the first 8 lines), I get warned that I can enter only 495.However, if I exceed 495 characters, a warning appears which indicates that I can only enter 511 characters... How does one avoid this contradiction? |
| Celeri | # Posted 37 minutes ago |
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Your approach doesn't seem good. Display how many empty characters are left, the CRLF will whatever happens be part of the total.<textarea name="text" rows="9" cols="55" maxlength="495"onkeyup= "console.log('Still: ', this.maxLength - this.value.length)"></textarea> |
| Kegon | # Posted 5 minutes ago |
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That's some tard-level shit code op. |