u can use the maxlength property to limit the characters a user can enter,
but i do not think that there is any upper limit to the no of characters
that can be entered.

bharat

----- Original Message -----
From: "brian lowe" <brian.lowe@i...>
To: "HTML Code Clinic" <html_code_clinic@p...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:38 PM
Subject: [html_code_clinic] MAXLENGTH on a INPUT textbox


> I've searched all the references I have, including the W3C definitive
> reference regarding HTML4.0, 3.2, etc.
>
> There doesn't seem to be a specified limit to the number of characters a
> user may enter into a textbox.
>
> My users are almost exclusively IE5+.
>
> Does anyone know the actual limit on textbox entry length supported by
IE5?
>
> As a secondary matter, the form data will travel across HTTP in the
> request object. I know requests can be multi-part and potentially very
> big, but is there a limit on the length of an individual item contained in
> the querystring or form data?
>
> Brian Lowe
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