Text Area Question

siwy

Is there a way to limit the number of rows in the text area?
What I want is for the text area to stop scroling down after let say 14 rows, so that you can't enter more than 14 rows of text in it.

AstroTeg

This is not directly available to the text area.

Although with some crafty JavaScript, you could implement this. I've seen JS code that keeps track of the number of letters/spaces you've used in the text area (handy for alpha-paging someone). You may be able to modify that code to count the number of characters one can enter per line and then multiply that number by 14 and not let them enter any more text after that number has been reached. Just a thought...

requestcode

Here is a quick example that worked in IE6:
<html>
<head>
<title>Jump cursor to next Text Box</title>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
NS6=document.getElementById&&!document.all? 1:0;
function Maxwords(fldobj,e,maxwords)
{
if (NS6)
{var keycode = e.which} // capture key pressed for Netscape
else
{var keycode = event.keyCode} // capture key pressed for IE
// alert(keycode)
words=new Array()
words=fldobj.value.split(" ")

if(words.length>maxwords&&keycode!="8") //if the number of words is greater than the max
{return false} // and the key is not a backspace then do not allow
} // anymore words. This was don because NS would not allow the
// the backspace when max words was reached.
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body>
<CENTER>
<FORM NAME="myform">

<textarea name="txt1" rows="10" cols="50" onKeyPress="return Maxwords(this,20)"></textarea>
</FORM>
</CENTER>
</body>
</html>

I modified the script because it was not working correctly with Mozilla browsers.