How do you impose a character limit on a text input in HTML?
This question is related to
html
character-limit
For the <input> element there's the maxlength attribute:
<input type="text" id="Textbox" name="Textbox" maxlength="10" />
(by the way, the type is "text", not "textbox" as others are writing), however, you have to use javascript with <textarea>s. Either way the length should be checked on the server anyway.
In addition to the above, I would like to point out that client-side validation (HTML code, javascript, etc.) is never enough. Also check the length server-side, or just don't check at all (if it's not so important that people can be allowed to get around it, then it's not important enough to really warrant any steps to prevent that, either).
Also, fellows, he (or she) said HTML, not XHTML. ;)
you can set maxlength with jquery which is very fast
jQuery(document).ready(function($){ //fire on DOM ready
setformfieldsize(jQuery('#comment'), 50, 'charsremain')
})
there's a maxlength attribute
<input type="text" name="textboxname" maxlength="100" />
use the "maxlength" attribute as others have said.
if you need to put a max character length on a text AREA, you need to turn to Javascript. Take a look here: How to impose maxlength on textArea in HTML using JavaScript
Source: Stackoverflow.com