They need to change the type of edit the synopsis field is. I suggested
the same thing as you a while ago, but was told it would not work. I
investigated and discovered that the TextArea tag does not allow for the
MaxLength parameter. I had read that it did, but actual tests proved
the disappointing news was correct. I don't know why the synopsis field
couldn't be changed to an input type=text field so that MaxLength would
work, though.
Sarah Van Oosterwijck http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
Scott,
Yep my method is similar. If we could get the BookShare engineers to
look into adding a maxlength attribute to that text box...The max length
simply would not allow more than 200 characters to ever be entered, thus the
elimination of the entire problem and the need for a somewhat annoying work
around.
Grin...
Jake
----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Blanks" <scottsjb@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:31 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] a tip on the short synopsis
theHey all,
I just wanted to throw this suggestion out to anybody on the list. I've
seen the occasional mention of people encountering difficulties because
their short synopsis was too long.
What I have been doing is writing my synopsis in MS Word, then accessingword count feature off of the tools menu. This handy little dialog box
shows you the number of words, characters, lines, etc. Obviously the only
critical statistic would be the number of characters. Then I select the
text and copy it to the clipboard, return to the Bookshare page, and paste
the text into the synopsis edit box.
My friends have told me that I have a very meticulous, and on occasion
obsessive, personality. I suppose this is one example that might qualify,
but I hope it might help someone.
Scott
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