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maxlength attribute in css

Sent by Christian Heilmann on 21 September 2005 20:08


> Hi,
>
> I have been googling without success around for a way to set maxlength
> for form inputs in CSS -- is this possible as far as anyone knows?
>
> If not, and if I have to use Javascript to achieve this task, can
> someone point me to a Javascript discussion list that is equivalent to
> this CSS list?

What is wrong with <input maxlengh="20" ... >? A maximum length is not
a visual attribute, it is a data restriction, and therefore not the
job of css. With JavaScript you"d need to read out the value length of
the element on every keyup and stop at a certain length.

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