[ic] Meta information edit --- text entry --- MAXLENGTH?

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jul 2 00:12:00 2003


Quoting John Matecsa (matecsaj@picassofish.com):
> On the "Meta information edit" form, for Widget type "Text entry", one
> can specify a Width, which in HTML terms is the SIZE.
> 
> How does one specify in HTML terms the MAXLENGTH?

You asked for it, and you got it from Xavier. However, I doubt that is
what you were looking for.

> 
> We would like to block the user from typing in more characters than the
> field can hold?

As has been pointed out, this is not foolproof. You can add a filter
that is just digits to *really* limit to that length.

Nonetheless, I have added Table editor MAXLENGTH support to CVS, because
that is a good idea.

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