Even if you set the rows and cols attributes of a textarea, it does not seems to be limiting the number of characters entered. For example, if you have a text area with rows="2" and cols="10", user will be able to type more than 20 characters into the textarea. You will have to use javascript if you want to restrict the number of characters entered. Setting the rows and cols just sizes the textarea accordingly, I think.
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To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:37 AM Subject: RE: html - textarea tag - MySQL question
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__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3599 (20081110) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
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