Textbox maxlength..... Why doesnt that ever work???

Darren Clark · Apr 10, 2004

Anyone have a solution for being able to set a max char limit for a
textarea?

Andrew de la Harpe · Apr 10, 2004

This is not a ASP.NET issue.
HTML textarea elements do not have a maxlength property.
You need to add some client code to handle this.
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