[countChars] from <textarea>

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 17554
interpreted = N
texte = Greetings~I can't seem to get my mind to work and wondered if someone had asuggestion. I want to be able to limit the amount of text posted to a dbbut entered into a window, similar to the way you can specifymaxlength=n of a <input name=foo value=footoo> field in regularHTML.My feeble attempts roughly as:[countChars]<textarea WRAP=HARD name=Posting rows=10cols=50>[/countChars]are net getting me very far.When I use the check:[showif [countChars]<100][/showif]the field info still gets added to the db. I'm not counting anything, Iguess(?)--.Dave.webmastermetropolitan community collegeskansas city, missouri, 64111http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.usmailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

[countChars] from (Dave Herriman <herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us> 1998)</li> <li><a href="page.dna?numero=17553">RE: [countChars] from <textarea></a> (Olin <olin@worldpoint.com> 1998)</li> </ol> </td></tr></table> Greetings~I can't seem to get my mind to work and wondered if someone had asuggestion. I want to be able to limit the amount of text posted to a dbbut entered into a <textarea> window, similar to the way you can specifymaxlength=n of a <input name=foo value=footoo> field in regularHTML.My feeble attempts roughly as:<a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=218">[countchars]</a><textarea WRAP=HARD name=Posting rows=10cols=50>[/countChars]are net getting me very far.When I use the check:[showif [countchars]<100][/showif]the field info still gets added to the db. I'm not counting anything, Iguess(?)--.Dave.webmastermetropolitan community collegeskansas city, missouri, 64111http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.usmailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us Dave Herriman DOWNLOAD WEBDNA NOW! Top Articles: Talk List The WebDNA community talk-list is the best place to get some help: several hundred extremely proficient programmers with an excellent knowledge of WebDNA and an excellent spirit will deliver all the tips and tricks you can imagine... Related Readings: PCS Emailer's role ? (1997) Re[2]: Re[2]: Bugs still *not* fixed as promised ... (2000) [INCLUDE] Limitations (1998) Upload Progress Bar (2003) A quickie question (1997) Applescript error (1998) AOL and referrers on target=_blank (2000) Problems reading files created by WC (1997) Credit card processing - UK (1997) How to put the Trademark Symbol (%99) in Sendmail? (2003) autosensing lanague selection (1997) Help! WebCat2 bug (1997) Support ?? (1997) WebCat2 - [format thousands] (1997) [WebDNA] v7 help (2012) [REPLACE] inside [FOUNDITEMS] (1998) Comments in db? (1997) What am I missing (1997) Updating checkboxes made easy !!! (1998) Pgp&emailer (1997)