How to limit character amount in rolling text box?

[Tec]

Hi you all! I'm a programmer but not a web designer myself, but I'm trying to help my friend who's making a site, and he can't figure out how to stop the user from typing over xx characters in a text box, NOT those simple one line fields, a text box with rolling arrows and stuff! he codes mostly in text editors so if someone could show me a simple piece of code showing how that's done or tell me how to do it in frontpage I'd be real grateful!!! It's kind of urgent! Thanks a million in advance! Oh yea, I'm talking about HTML!

[Whir]

There is no way to limit characters through HTML.

You may be able to do so with a javascript, but I am uncertain as to how to actually do so without a whole bunch of operations. There is no direct "size" property to deal with, plus you'd have to do some string operations every time the character count exceeded the specified size.

[Tec]

umm ok I see... Thanks a lot on the full info about this !