input text field

[uatt]

As you can see, this is the html for the text fied

<td align="right"><input type="text" name="say" maxlength="700" accesskey="x" style="width: 220px">

seemingly, the number of words written in is fixed...
So, how can I write as many words as possible that the end of sentence not being chopped and the size of the field(that box appearence) do not change

or the field is controlled by the style??

thanks...

[19nine78]

The number of words which can be entered into the field is dictated by the 'maxlength' attribute. If you want a field with no limits, just leave it out.

eg:

<input type="text" name="say" accesskey="x" style="width: 220px">

The style attribute only sets the width that the box will appear on screen, which can also be set using 'size' attribute however the size attribute sets the width of the box in characters, not pixels.

cheers

alastair

[Dan Morgan]

The way you have it, the width controls the overall physical size of the input field and maxlength controls how many characters can be entered into the box.

The sentences are only being cut off when the user reaches the limit of 700 characters. To increase the amount you want to allow them to write, increase the maxlength value, to increase the width, increase the width value.

They can write up to 700 characters in the box, the box just scrolls as the do so to show them what they are currently typing.

I dont really understand as you seem to have the solution for you problem in the code you already have.

Glen

[Technosailor]

if you set maxlength then the fixed length of the field is 700 characters(in your case). If you set size, that's what sets the appearance of the <input>.

For instance.

<input name="field" size="50" maxlength="350">

simply puts a text field that appears to be 50 characters wide but it will scroll, and scroll, and scroll until you get to 350 characters.

Good luck.
Sketch

[uatt]

I think there is no problem on the form and I doubt the style.... here is the style..
any clues??

As this is the form and may be the script chop the length of the say.....I will check...so here is the style

<style type="text/css">
<!--
.title { font-weight: bold; color: #8899AA; }
body { scrollbar-face-color: #262626; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #262626; scrollbar-highlight-color: #262626; scrollbar-shadow-color: #262626; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #262626; scrollbar-track-color: #1A1A1A; scrollbar-arrow-color: #8899AA; }
hr { color: #333333; height: 1px; }
input { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; color: #8899AA; text-decoration: none; background-color: #1A1A1A; border-color: #4A4A4A; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; }
td { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; color: #888888; text-decoration: none; }
a:active { color: #AAAAAA; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { color: #8899AA; text-decoration: none; }
a:link { color: #AAAAAA; text-decoration: none; }
a:visited { color: #666666; text-decoration: none; }
-->
</style>

[uatt]

yes, it is substring funtion to chop the words...

now I got a new problem..

the sentence do not wrap...and it enlarge my table of the page

what part in html should I add it to make the sentence wrapping to next line and not widen my table...

[redemption]

if you're referring to continuous sentences with no spaces in between not wrapping and extending your table, i *think* there's no solution for that by changing the HTML alone... you can do that with PHP, ASP, Perl (i.e. server-side scripts)

[uatt]

so how it compose in perl..
is it work...

$index = 30 ;
$len =length($say);
if($len > 30){ $say = subsrt($say, 0, 30)."<br>\n".substr($say, 31, $len+1) ;

[ThomFoolery]

Originally posted by redemption
if you're referring to continuous sentences with no spaces in between not wrapping and extending your table, i *think* there's no solution for that by changing the HTML alone...i.e. server-side scripts)

This wraps text in my forms!

<textarea wrap=virtual rows=10 cols=50 name="Questions_Comments"></textarea>

I hope that helps.

[redemption]

but it doesn't wrap text in tables