Hello Lamar: You set the size of the textarea by specifying cols and rows. If cols="60" and rows="8" then you could have 8 rows of 60 chars each. The maximum value of varchar is 255. It runs from 0 to 255, or 256 choices. Over that, you may use mediumtext or simply text. Humberto -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lamar Upshaw Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:29 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: html - textarea tag - MySQL question I have two questions: 1. can I use the maxlenth atribute in the textarea tag? 2. I want to store the content from the textarea in a MySQL database table. What's the limit I can set the varchar? I thought it was 256. With All Respect, Upshaw, Lamar T __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind