Large text in TextArea freezes computer

Question

When I try to set the value of a textarea with a large text (for example a string length of 600000), the browser (Firefox 3.5.3) freezes.

The text is in 1 line so t

Answer 1

There is basically no controls that are designed for that kind of data sizes, because it simply doesn't make any sense to present all that informaton at once to the user.

Even if the control would handle the data, it would be practically unusable as you can't navigate through the data in any reasonable fashion.