Use the onKeyPress() event of the TextArea to track the # of characters
typed by the user in a javascript function. You'll also probably want to
reset the counter somehow.

John Owen
Federal TransTel
Senior Developer


-----Original Message-----
From: Anne Do [mailto:anhdo@a...]
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 4:08 PM
To: HTML Code Clinic
Subject: [html_code_clinic] Help with limiting text inside an <text
area> box?


I have a text area box that I want to limit to 255 characters.  How do I 
do that?  I know with an <input ..> field I would use maxlength=255, but 
how do I do that for a text area box  in a form that has this code?

<TEXTAREA cols="40" rows="12" name="Description"> </TEXTAREA>


I want users to be able to see what they are typing.

Thank you.