How do you limit textarea of a form

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Re: How do you limit textarea of a form⭐ by ZZamboni (Curate) on May 25, 2000 at 03:11 UTC
Or if you want to remove blank lines: `s/\n{2,}/\n/g;` [download] If you want to clump everything into a single line (maybe for reformatting it yourself, see Text::Wrap or my Nicely format a list or a string snippet): `s/\s+/ /g;` [download] If you want to cut it to the first 5 non-empty lines: `$text=join("\n",(split(/\n+/,$text))[0..4])` [download] I don't think there is an HTML attribute to restrict the number of lines in a TEXTAREA. --ZZamboni	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do you limit textarea of a form by reptile (Monk) on May 25, 2000 at 00:15 UTC
A possible perl solution is removing some of the newlines, like: `s/\n{3,}/\n\n/g;` [download] which will replace three or more newlines in a row with two (two to preserve double-spacing of paragraphs).	[reply] [d/l]
Re: How do you limit textarea of a form by newrisedesigns (Curate) on Dec 19, 2002 at 14:59 UTC
In the text of the page, put "X character limit." Then `$text = substr($text, 0, X)` You can also add the following as a guide to your form-submitters. <input value="X" size="3" name="msgCL" disabled> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- var supportsKeys = false function tick() { calcCharLeft(document.forms[0]) if (!supportsKeys) timerID = setTimeout("tick()",200) } function calcCharLeft(sig) { clipped = false maxLength = 200 //Change this. if (document.creator.signature.value.length > maxLength) { document.creator.signature.value = document.creator.signature. +value.substring(0,maxLength) charleft = 0 clipped = true } else { charleft = maxLength - document.creator.signature.value.length } document.creator.msgCL.value = charleft return clipped } tick(); //--> </script> [download] Hope this helps	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How do you limit textarea of a form by Anonymous Monk on Jul 01, 2002 at 16:55 UTC
We used javascript to count the number of characters in the textarea box. If the number was too large, we disallowed form entry with a user alert. Originally posted as a Categorized Answer.	[reply]