TextArea Maximum Length?

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Histack picture Histack · Feb 25, 2011 · Viewed 27.6k times · Source

Is it possible to set the maximum length of text in a TextArea?

Answer

Etdashou picture Etdashou · Oct 18, 2012

Something interesting is that HTML5 have added the feature of maxlength to textarea, if HTML5 is something you are ok to use right now.

W3C official documentation

Demo:

<textarea maxlength="20"></textarea>

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