How define the maximum length in html:textarea in Struts?

[John]

Hi everybody,
I'm faced off with the maximum characters length of a Textarea using
Struts <html:textarea>.
I found a lot of suggestions about how to set a textarea to a defined
length using the simple HTML tag. But I couldn't find anything about
the <html:textarea>

Does anybody of you know how to set in struts <html:textarea> a fixed
nr. of characters? Some hints or also webpage...

Thank you very much for your help
John

 

[Owen Jacobson]

Hi everybody,
I'm faced off with the maximum characters length of a Textarea using
Struts <html:textarea>.
I found a lot of suggestions about how to set a textarea to a defined
length using the simple HTML tag. But I couldn't find anything about
the <html:textarea>

Does anybody of you know how to set in struts <html:textarea> a fixed
nr. of characters? Some hints or also webpage...

Thank you very much for your help
John

There are no attributes on the html 'textarea' element that limit the
number of characters the textarea can hold -- only on input elements
of type 'text'. See <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/
forms.html#h-17.7> for details.

You'll have to write some server-side validation to reject or truncate
submissions with too many characters. You may also (not instead) want
to add some javascript validation on the page to streamline the user
experience.