wrapping text into multiple lines in a text-box

[asp_funda]

I was trying to use a textbox as a textarea & by specifying its height, I can make it look like a textarea.

  <input type="text" name="myBox" maxlength="70" style="width:50px; height:50px;">

Now my text-box looks like a textarea but the text continues to be in a single line. I want it to wrap into multiple lines & I can show scrollbars using the overflow property but can't make it wrap in multiple lines.

The reason I'm trying this is b'coz of the excellent support of the maxlength property of the textbox which doesn't allow any entry if the length of textbox value equals the limit. I know that this can be achieved by using textarea & javascript or serverside validation but I want to use a text-box.

Can anyone help?

[Johan Dahlström]

What you are trying to do here is not possible, and if it was I would'nt support it. Use the inputs and textareas as they're supposed to be used.

[-Ox]

yup, totally, that is why they invented a textarea

How about applying this little snip of javascript to your text area

  <script>
  //Text field counter
  function textCounter(field, countfield, maxlimit)
  {
      if (field.value.length > maxlimit) // if too long...trim it!
          field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlimit);
      else
          countfield.value = maxlimit - field.value.length;
  }
  
  </script>
  <form>
  
 Characters left:<input readonly="readonly" type="text" name="remLen" size="3" maxlength="3" value="250" style="width:30px" />
  
 <textarea id="sfD" class="frm" name="desc" cols="50" rows="5" onkeydown="textCounter(this.form.desc,this.form.remLen,250);" onkeyup="textCounter(this.form.desc,this.form.remLen,250);">
  </form>

obviously that is a pretty basic and you will need to style it etc but that is how you can limit a textarea

please excuse my code its old but the concept's there

hope that helps

/Ox

[asp_funda]

Ox, if I'd wanted to use JavaScript, I would've done it, its not that hard. Anyways, thanks for your input. But I was looking for some non script validation, that's why I was trying the input text-box.
I'll look into CSS WiKi & see if there's anything. The darn thing is that there isn't a CSS Manual that one can look up for some property or something. Though DreamWeaverMX 2004 shows the pop-menu for CSS properties but it has nothing that I can use.

[vgarcia]

Ox, if I'd wanted to use JavaScript, I would've done it, its not that hard. Anyways, thanks for your input. But I was looking for some non script validation, that's why I was trying the input text-box.
I'll look into CSS WiKi & see if there's anything. The darn thing is that there isn't a CSS Manual that one can look up for some property or something. Though DreamWeaverMX 2004 shows the pop-menu for CSS properties but it has nothing that I can use.

This one's not going to happen. Textboxes are for single-line input; textareas are for multiline input.

[asp_funda]

This one's not going to happen. Textboxes are for single-line input; textareas are for multiline input.