CFTEXTAREA

[yankeefan24]

Is there away to limt cftextarea by word not characters? I need to limit my form to 250 words. is there a way to do this?

[arrgh]

I doubt there is anything built in, but you could roll your own. Grab the textarea value, split it on some sort of word boundary (space, etcetera) and validate.

[yankeefan24]

I tried Maxlength="250" validate="maxlength" to limt by characters but it did not work. Im using rich text areas

[arrgh]

Worked fine for me. Maybe you've got an error in your code? Also what's your CF version?

[yankeefan24]

9

[arrgh]

Well like I said, there's no reason it should not work. Maybe there's an error in your code. Can you post it?

[yankeefan24]

<div class="grid_12">    
        <cftextarea name="category#accountabilityCategory.id#_successfulComments" class="controlsB" validate="maxlength" maxlength="50">
            #accountabilityCategory.successfulComments#
        </cftextarea>

[danarashad]

maxlength should work, but javascript could also work.

[danarashad]

http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/form/limit-characters.html