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I have a text area that users add notes too. On the next page I use the $_POST[Comments] to show what was typed. I have an edit button to go back and see what was typed and edit the notes but when I show the $_POST[Comments] it shows everything up to an apostrophe. Example: Originally typed: Let's try this. When Editing: Let Now when I pass it to the server to do an SQL add I use the following function to protect against SQL injection function keepSafe($value) { if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) { $value = stripslashes($value); } if (!is_numeric($value)) { $value = "'" . mysqli_real_escape_string(

I am trying detect when a textarea becomes full for creating pagination effect. Using the .length property will not work, however, because long words 'jump' to new lines. | I like to dooo| displays as | I like to | | oooodle | | dooooooodle | So what ends up happening is that the textarea always runs out of space before the .length property reaches the textarea limit. Is there any other way to detect textarea fullness? Jquery solutions are fine as well. Thanks. Majid Fouladpour You can try to check if scrollbars have appeared in your textarea. Here is a simple way to do this. Initially make

I want to notify when the size of textarea changes, what event happens at that time, how can I detect it? Here is a small example using pure (without jQuery etc. dependencies) Javascript. It's using mouseup and keyup handlers and an optional intervall to detect changes. var detectResize = (function() { function detectResize(id, intervall, callback) { this.id = id; this.el = document.getElementById(this.id); this.callback = callback || function(){}; if (this.el) { var self = this; this.width = this.el.clientWidth; this.height = this.el.clientHeight; this.el.addEventListener('mouseup', function(

I've got a textarea with a fixed height. When the user types text into the textarea a scrollbar will show up after the user typed some text in it. How can I get the scrollbar height using jQuery or plain JavaScript? I've been searching for this for hours, but couldn't find anything. I can't just insert a div and get the scrollbar height via the div offset because a textarea is not allowed to have child elements. Please don't give me a link to a jQuery Plug-In that does the job. I want to learn something. kennebec textarea.scrollHeight returns an integer (pixels) Kashyap Makadia $.each($(

I tried applying the :maxlenght => 40 on a textarea on my form. But it didn't work out. Can we have a length limit on a textarea? The code for text area is <%= f.text_area :data, :rows => 2, :cols => 60 , :maxlength => 140, :autocomplete => :off, :class => "textareabytes" %> Shalom Craimer Just like Rahul said, there's no maxlength attribute for textarea in HTML. Only text input 's have that. The thing you need to remember, is that RoR's text_area function (and all of RoR's HTML-generator functions) accept any argument you'll give them. If they don't recognized the parameter, then the'll just