How to limite the amount of characters in a form textbox with HTML?

Question

I can limit the amount of characters that can be entered into normal form fields but not textareas. How would i do this?

Answer 1

Textareas don't have a parameter that can be used to limit input.

You could use JavaScript to count the number of characters in the textarea and shut off additional input, but that won't work if people disable or don't support JavaScript.

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/limit-textarea.html

Answer 2

Best way that I've been able to sniff out is via a bit of Javascript...Check this out:


http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/limitinput.htm