Maxlength is only an attribute of cftextarea I believe. You should read the LiveDocs on this, you must specify what to validate and when. Anyway, here is an example to get you started:
<cftextarea name="word_input" cols="60" rows="8" wrap="virtual" onkeyup="f=document.form_count; f.word_count.value=f.word_input.value.length;" validate="maxlength" validateAt="onBlur" maxlength="256"></cftextarea> [email protected] on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 3:14 PM -0800 wrote: >This question is related to what we have been doing. The whole purpose >that I have been creating this is because the text in the text box is >going to be stored inside a database - a maximum of 256 characters. I >wanted the user to know how many characters they have used. > >Here is my question, how come when I use the maxlength option on the >cftextarea, it doesn't stop the user at that number like it does when I >use the maxlength option on the cfinput? > ><cftextarea name="question1TEXT" maxlength="256" >onkeyup="f=document.form_count; >f.word_count1.value=f.question1TEXT.value.length;" rows="3" cols="100" >wrap="virtual"></cftextarea> > >Any ideas? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:2078 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
