CF8 for cftextarea maxlentgth is not working

[GreenGoneMad]

Hi,

I'm using CF8 and this is my code

<cftextarea id="summary" name="summary" rows="5" cols="80" maxlength="300" required="yes" validate="noblanks" message="You must enter summary." />

It is not working. Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks

Joe Green

[duncancumming]

What do you mean by 'not working'?  Does nothing appear?  Are you able to type in more than 300 characters?  Do you get a javascript error?  ... etc

[Priyank Shrivastava.]

Hi Joe,

Can you be more specifc about this issue, what is it that not woking and is it not validating the maxlength.

Try and use validate="maxlength"

Thanks,

Priyank

[GreenGoneMad]

Yes now it is working with validate="maxlength".

Is there a way to stop user from typing more characters than say 300 or show char counter?

[p_sim]

maxlength="300"

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7afd.html

[GreenGoneMad]

maxlength="300" is not enough because user can keeping on typing over the 300 limit.  That's why I'm wondering if there is any way we can disable keys after 300 character limit has reached or display the number of charaters typed.

[p_sim]

Use JavaScript.

http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/form/limit-characters.html

[GreenGoneMad]

This script doesn't work with cftextarea. Got a love Coldfusion.

[GreenGoneMad · Accepted solution]

function limitText1(limitField,  limitNum) {     if (limitField.value.length > limitNum) {         limitField.value = limitField.value.substring(0, limitNum);         alert("Character limit exceeded - please reduce the length of description.");     } }  and   onKeyDown="limitText1(this.form.summary,300);  Works finally.