Another dumb question about text boxes in a Web app...

[Coleen]

I have a multiline text box that I only want to allow the user to type 500
characters in. I set the maxlength to 500, but I can type more than 500
characters in it. Is there a way to set the max length programmaticall y?
TIA

Coleen

[Dune]

Another dumb question about text boxes in a Web app...

No, there is no way to set the max length
programmaticall y, the documentation says "This property is
only applicable when the TextMode property is set to
TextBoxMode.Sin gleLine or TextBoxMode.Pas sword", see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?

url=/library/en-
us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwebu iwebcontrolstex tboxclassmaxlen
gthtopic.asp

To get around this, you'll have to validate the max length
yourself using client-side scripting or alternatively, you
can validate server-side by using a custom validator.

Hope this helps

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