Is there an HTML5 attribute to set the maximum amount of characters in a textarea or other form?
I want a yes/no answer not some other method using javascript.
Is there an HTML5 attribute to set the maximum amount of characters in a
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Is there an HTML5 attribute to set the maximum amount of characters in a textarea or other form?
I want a yes/no answer not some other method using javascript.
Yup, maxlength works still: http://jsfiddle.net/xhqsB/1/ (demo has textarea and input type of text)
Beware that it is fairly easy for the client to bypass these restrictions, so if you are submitting data to a form, have the server-side script check the length of the submitted data.