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Is there a way in HTML5 forms to add a min and max character to a textarea? It seems I can apply it to a regular input using pattern. <input pattern=".{3,}" title="3 characters minimum"> Am I looking at a jquery solution? HTML5 solution, min 5, max 20 characters just set the attribute maxlength="20" and minlength="5" to the textarea tag http://jsfiddle.net/xhqsB/603/ <form> <textarea maxlength="20" minlength="5"></textarea> <input type="submit" value="Check"></input> </form> For max: see below code Use maxlength for maximum character. maxlength="nuber_of_characters" Source: http://www.w3.org

Is it possible to detect how many characters are being pasted into a HTML textarea, and cancel the paste if beyond a limit? Edit: what I am trying to do is prevent the user pasting a massive amount of characters (~3 million) because it crashes some browsers. So I want to cancel the paste before their browser locks up. I am making a document editor where users are likely to try this. But they can type as much as they want. you can do this on jQuery like this: $(document).ready(function(){ function limits(obj, limit){ var text = $(obj).val(); var length = text.length; if(length > limit){ $(obj)

The script below inserts text to the end of text area. I need to change to insert text after current cursor position in the text area. jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $('#addCommentImage').click(function(){ var imageLoc = prompt('Enter the Image URL:'); if ( imageLoc ) { $('#comment').val($('#comment').val() + '[img]' + imageLoc + '[/img]'); } return false; }); }); Darin Dimitrov You may checkout this answer . The insertAtCaret jquery plugin seems very nice. if the above does not work (it didn't in my case - maybe my configuration is little bit different), here is another solution: you can

I am currently trying to justify text in a textarea, unfortunately the CSS: text-align: justify; Doesn't work on the text like center, left and right do. I've tried this in both Firefox 3 and IE 7 with no luck. Is there any way around this? i dont think this is possible in the html textarea element. you might be able to use some sort of wysiwyg editor (editable div). ie. fckeditor I dealt with same issue and found out very stupid solution. Make sure that the text to be displayed falls within the start and end tag elements in the same line and not in the next line <textarea name="description"

I'm attempting to provide a consistent width per line in pixels inside of a textarea across IE8, Firefox and Safari, so that text content wraps lines as predictably and consistently as possible. Firefox is doing something a little bit odd: it has an extra pixel of padding eating out of the content space of the textarea vs the other two browsers, and vs a similarly equipped div block. When applying this class to both a textarea and a div the difference is visible, with the text in the div touching the outer left edge of the red background but the text in the textarea have 1 px padding-like

I have a textarea with 5 lines. I want to show only one line and on focus it should show remaining 4 lines. You can try something like this: $(document).ready(function(){ $('#moo').focus(function(){ $(this).attr('rows', '4'); }); }); where moo is your textarea. jQuery(function($){ $('#foo').focus(function(){ $(this).attr('rows',5); }).blur(function(){ $(this).attr('rows',1); }); }); Or, using less jQuery, less typing, and getting a hair more performance: jQuery(function($){ $('#foo') .focus(function(){ this.rows=5 }) .blur( function(){ this.rows=1 }); }); Try this $('#textboxid').focus