on 10/13/08 mjatharvest wrote:

Hey guys, what is the character limit for textarea elements created by the forms module?

on 10/14/08 cjohnsonDISABLED wrote:

Hello,

There is no character limit for textarea elements created by the forms module—they can be of variable length.

Chad

on 10/14/08 mjatharvest wrote:

Thanks,

What would you think about setting a high limit, like 1500 characters or so?

I often use this module for submission of prayer requests to a church, having a character limit would prevent people from sending ridiculously long requests through the form.

on 10/14/08 cjohnsonDISABLED wrote:

Currently we don’t have a way of doing this, but it is definitely a good suggestion. We will look into this and determine how it fits into the product development roadmap.

on 10/15/08 jstayton16 wrote:

What really limits us with text areas is the inability to specify a maxlength like you can with input fields. I think your best bet would be some JavaScript that limits the character count. You can either verify onsubmit or onkeyup, like the follow examples show:

http://www.rgagnon.com/jsdetails/js-0091.html
http://javascript.internet.com/forms/limit-textarea.html
http://www.felgall.com/jstip20.htm

Justin “Jark” Stayton
Monk Development

Edited by jstayton16 on 10/15/08