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Tuesday, 4 October 2011

How to fix maxlength in Multiline Textbox (or) TextArea in asp.net


<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        Me.TextBox1.Attributes.Add("onKeyPress", "return textboxMultilineMaxNumber(this,40);")
    End Sub
   
</script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function textboxMultilineMaxNumber(txt,maxLen){
            try{
                if(txt.value.length > (maxLen-1))
                return false;
               }catch(e){
               }
        }
    </script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>MaxLength Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Text="Note that you can paste past the limit"
            Width="50%" Rows="5" BackColor="#FFFFCC" TextMode="MultiLine">
        </asp:TextBox>
       
        <br /><br />
        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Do Something" />
        <br /><br />
       
         <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="RegularExpressionValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="TextBox1"
                    Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="Please limit to 40 characters or less."
                    ValidationExpression="[\s\S]{1,40}"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

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