No! What I meant to say was Jon, how do you code the box to accept no more than 255 characters?

Off the top of my head, I can't remember. I think it's possible, though. I'll check this evening (unless John H. or some other html guru beats me to it).

Oh - ita - Did you not like my thread-name-near-the-bottom-of-the-page-code, or have you just not had a chance to look at it yet?

Not yet.

No! What I meant to say was Jon, how do you code the box to accept no more than 255 characters?

I did a little research and I don't think it's possible with a textarea (multiline text) field. On a single line input text field you can set a "maxlength" parameter, but it doesn't work on the multi-line version. We could switch the field to a single line, but then you get that thing where the text scrolls off the right and/or left edges of the box and the only way to see it is to put your curser in the field and use the arrow keys or the home or end key - I've always found that very annoying.

I think all we can do is include a warning like "Warning: 255 character maximum length. Longer taglines will be cropped mercilessly."

Grr. I hate counting my own characters.

Is this board a javascript-free zone? If not, I bet you could do it with javascript.

Yup, JS free. And not just because we have lynx users. Actually, no. There is JS to put your cursor in the name field on the login screen.

Jon, can you just tell me how you'd style and position the warning?

You could code an error message that appears if it's too long...

You could code an error message that appears if it's too long...

Yeah. I was just trying to minimize processing on the server side, but if we can't handle it HTML, then that's what I'll do.

Jon, can you just tell me how you'd style and position the warning?

Sure... gimme a few minutes.