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at March 30, 2009 21:20 by hotdiggity
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Limit Word Count in a textarea</title>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
var wordLen = 10; // Maximum word length
function checkWordLen(obj){
var len = obj.value.split(/[\s]+/);
if(len.length > wordLen){
alert("You've exceeded the "+wordLen+" word limit for the article!");
obj.oldValue = obj.value!=obj.oldValue?obj.value:obj.oldValue;
obj.value = obj.oldValue?obj.oldValue:"";
return false;
}
return true;
}
// --></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>JavaScript Example</h1>
<p>This JavaScript sets a maximum word count to a textarea.</p>
<form action="" method="get">
<fieldset>
<legend>Example Form</legend>
<label>Text input: <br><textarea rows="15" cols="30" name="t1" onkeyup="checkWordLen(this);"></textarea></label>
<input class="button" name="Submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
<input class="button" name="Reset" type="reset" value="Reset" />
</fieldset>
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Limit Word Count in a textarea
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css, javascript, html
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JavaScript