textarea caracteristics

Can someone say to me if it's possible to block a textarea.

I explain :
I want to enter only 235 characters in my textarea,for the moment I use a javascript but if you are too fast you can enter more than 235.
So for the moment I resize my textbox to 5*47 charaters but the user can continue If he want,I want to eject the toolbar and stop the user from encoding after 5 lines.

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Hi Mate,
I'm sure JavaScript is your answer! All I can say is the JavaScript that you're using at the moment isn't programmed correctly. Maybe you can show me the code and I might be able to make a few alterations to it - that's if it isn't too complicated!

Hi, maybe this site will help...

http://wsabstract.com/script/script2/countwords.shtml


good luck

Regards
:o Mac :)