Comments on: Limit – Limit the number of characters in a textarea jQuery plugin

By: Tarek

Tarek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:57:44 +0000

This is great, I did read yours after I posted mine and we basically are doing the same thing. I feel better that someone else is thinking along the same line … Great job

By: Tarek

Tarek — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:53:30 +0000

I like the concept, so I built mine based on your concept:

function ValidateSize(_obj, _allowedsize)
{

if($(“#” + _obj).val().length <= _allowedsize)
{
LIMIT_CHAR = false;
$(“#limit”).html(‘Maximum allowed characters ‘ + _allowedsize);
$(“#” + _obj).removeClass(“error”);
return false;
}
else
{
LIMIT_CHAR = true;
$(“#” + _obj).addClass(“error”);
$(“#” + _obj).val($(“#” + _obj).val().substring(0, _allowedsize));
$(“#limit”).html(‘Allowed number of characters reached.’);
return false;
}
}

Plug the ValidateSize in the onkeyup or onkeypress event of the object you need to limit.

By: QuackFuzed

QuackFuzed — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:18:01 +0000

Hello,

Very nice plugin, but like a couple of others, I was unable to get your demo (this page) working in IE7 (build 7.0.5730.13) or IE8 (multiple machines, using build 8.0.6001.18702). Personally I loathe IE and its use should be punishable by death, but unfortunately many people drink the IE Kool-Aid and the powers that be have net yet passed my proposed legislation. This ultimately means that I cannot rely on a solution that does not work in IE. :-(

Do you have any plans to “fix” the Limit plugin to include support for IE? I say “fix” because IE is the issue, and the only appropriate fix is for IE to be wiped from existence. ;-)

By: Vaviloff

Vaviloff — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:10:25 +0000

Thanks, nice neat script that does as is called.

By: ramito

ramito — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:17:36 +0000

Hello Jan,
Little bug when using Limit and DefaultValue on the same textarea :
When the default value is shown, chars left should show the maximum allowed chars, and not substract the default value’s length from it, since the default value should not count as text…

Hope this helps :)

By: axe

axe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:32:01 +0000

This script is buggy in IE8.

By: skybondsor

skybondsor — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:57:00 +0000

Thank you for this! It’s just what I’d been looking for.

By: zhiyin

zhiyin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:21:03 +0000

my skype id is zhiyin.pan,
if you have time, we can use teamviewer. so you can see what I am saying.

By: Jan Jarfalk

Jan Jarfalk — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Hi zhiyin,
I would like to help you, but im not sure I understand what a multi-character input is.
Could you upload something where the problem/bug could be reproduced?

By: zhiyin

zhiyin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:11:41 +0000

Hello there,

thanks for the nice plugin.
I have noticed a bug in the plugin when dealing with multi-character inputs. it is likely because that the input method allows multiple characters to be inserted at the same time, when i reached the proposed limit, My entire textarea got reset. all the previous input is lost.

Could you take a look at this issue?

thx,

Zhiyin