textarea validation

[Neil Shaw]

Hi can someone please helpme. I want to validate a textarea box. I
dont want to just validate the no of characters entered i need to
check how many lines have been entered. Basically i want to validate
that only 23 lines of 40 characters are being entered.

 

[Randy Webb]

Hi can someone please helpme. I want to validate a textarea box. I
dont want to just validate the no of characters entered i need to
check how many lines have been entered. Basically i want to validate
that only 23 lines of 40 characters are being entered.

23*40 = 920. Check it's length property.

You could conceivably count the returns, but they are different on
different OS'es. But what happens if I don't hit the Enter key but keep
on typing? Is that one line or multiples?