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I want a textarea field and a counter that lets the user know how many characters he has typed in. I tried something like
<Script Language="JavaScript">
function adding()
{
texto = new String()
texto = document.Rform.Rtext.value
document.Rform.displayChars.value = texto.lenght
}
</Script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="Rform">
<textarea name="Rtext" cols=10 rows=20 onChange="adding()"></textarea>
<BR><BR>
<input type="text" size=5 name="displayChars">
But it doesnt work. Any ideas people?
message is the name for the textarea you type into, but I don't think it works in NS4.xCode:function calcCharLeft(f) {
clipped = false
maxLength = 1000
if (f.message.value.length > maxLength) {
f.message.value = f.message.value.substring(0,maxLength)
charleft = 0
clipped = true
} else {
charleft = maxLength - f.message.value.length
}
f.msgCL.value = charleft
return clipped
}
and
<input value="1000" size="3" name="msgCL" disabled>
also I noticed you spelled length wrong in your script, change that and see if it works.
lookd correc except that your mispelled length. Is that how it is in your actual code?
Oops!!! Looks like I meesed up good didn't I? But after I changed the typo it still wont work right. I mean, it will show the number of characters if I click on somewhere else on the page but not as I am typing them in. Is it possible to do this?
tha tfunction I left does exactly that.
OK Thanks a lot guys. you been very helpful. Have a nice day.