Limit number of characters in a textbox

**rockies1** · Jun 27th, 2001, 10:07 AM

What is the best way to do this?

I tried:

Code:

if len(txtTextBox) > 10 then
     txtTextBox.Text = left(txtTextBox,10)
End If

But It places the cursor at the beginning of the text box, screwing up the text if the user continues to type and didn't notice...

Any ideas?

**marex** · Jun 27th, 2001, 10:12 AM

In the textbox properties you can set the MaxLength.

cheers
Ray

ATommasi · Jun 27th, 2001, 10:13 AM

VB Code:

If Len(txtTextBox) > 10 Then
     txtTextBox.Text = Left(txtTextBox, 10)
     txtTextBox.SelStart = Len(txtTextBox)
End If

ATommasi · Jun 27th, 2001, 10:14 AM

DOH!!

I forgot about MaxLength.

**rockies1** · Jun 27th, 2001, 10:15 AM

Well crap...

I looked for that, but stupid me had the properties for the form, not the text box...DUH

Thanks for setting me straight!!

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