You <var> name is wrong, try the following....
<var>
<var-name>maxlength</var-name>
<var-value>500</var-value>
</var>
Niall
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Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:00 PM
> I am trying to do a maxlength validation on a textarea but it always fails
> validation however many characters I put in the field (even if it is
empty).
>
> The textarea tag in my jsp is:
> <html:textarea name="Page2Form" bundle="messages" property="comments"
> titleKey="comments.form.alt" altKey="comments.form.alt" rows="5"
> styleClass="TextInput" errorStyleClass="ErrorTextInput"/>
>
> The validation XML is:
> <field property="comments" depends="maxlength">
> <arg position="0" bundle="messages" key="comments.form.alt"/>
> <arg position="1" name="maxlength" key="${var:max}" resource="false"/>
> <var>
> <var-name>max</var-name>
> <var-value>500</var-value>
> </var>
> </field>
>
> Have I got something wrong?
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