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Textarea Limit characters per line Jquery or Javascript

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How to limit number of characters per line in text area to a fixed value.

hello Friends,

I have a textarea field in my view.

I need to set per line 72 characters length.

that is user is entering more than 72 chracter per line I need go to next line.

How to set these limits using jquery or javascript?

Thanks

Solution

  • This is not standard, but it works in many browsers, test it.

    http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_TEXTAREA_WRAP.html

    <TEXTAREA NAME="HARD" COLS="72" ROWS="5" WRAP="HARD">

    Setting wrap to hard makes it send new lines to the server. Setting it to soft only breaks it visually.