Set maxlength in Html Textarea [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you are using HTML 5, you need to specify that in your DOCTYPE declaration.

For a valid HTML 5 document, it should start with:

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Before HTML 5, the textarea element did not have a maxlength attribute.

You can see this in the DTD/spec:

In order to limit the number of characters typed into a textarea, you will need to use javascript with the onChange event. You can then count the number of characters and disallow further typing.

Here is an in-depth discussion on text input and how to use server and client side scripting to limit the size.

Here is another sample.