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Dec 1st, 2008
hi
i have a text area where i want to limit the number of charactersin each line.
for example if the user enters more than 50 caharacters it should automatically move the cursor to the next line
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I do not know if there is a simple way. But at this moment here what you can do.

Write a event handler for onkeyup for your text area and count for every keypress if count exceeds 50 then append '\n'(new line character) by yourself.

thats it.
Your js keyhandler will look somthing like this:-
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  1. var count = 0;
  2. function keypress (e) {
  3.      if(count>=50) {
  4.            document.getElementById('textarea_id').value = document.getElementById('textarea_id').value + '\n';
  5.            count = 0;
  6.      } else {
  7.            count++;
  8.      }
  9. }
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this is not working
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What have you done till now?
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Of course its working man. I tried it with document.getElementById('id of textarea')

What you want? That a working code is delivered to you so that you can sit back and rest.
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tried something like this
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  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  2. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  3. <head>
  4. <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
  5. <!--
  6. var count = 0;
  7. function ress(){
  8.  
  9. if(count>=5) {
  10. document.getElementById('textarea_id').value = document.getElementById('textarea_id').value + '\n';
  11. count = 0;
  12. } else {
  13. count++;
  14. }
  15. }
  16. //-->
  17. </script>
  18. </head>
  19.  
  20. <body>
  21. <form>
  22. <textarea name="textarea_id" onkeypress="ress();"></textarea>
  23. </form>
  24. </body>
  25. </html>
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in the function you have passed a variable called 'e'...wat is tat for
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Where you had set the id for textarea?

ignore e in the function
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i want it to work when the tries to paste also
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