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.

I don't know if this helps at all, but the People bulletin boards feature handles that are limited to only 50 characters. I don't know if their approach could be made to work here; the relevant code is, I think:

[input name="handle" type=text size=30 maxlength=50 value="Find your Higher Power. (Mine's laying on a chaise longue, smoking pot.) Bad Higher Power!!"]

Change square brackets to pointy ones, of course.

I don't know if this is feasible for the Phoenix board; I'm presuming some of the setup is different. But I thought I'd mention it.

Billytea, see my post above: Jon B "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Oct 28, 2002 9:37:51 pm EST

ita - I updated editprofile.php in test to include a warning. While I was at it, I added classes to the messages at the top of the page, right below the blood-colored bar. Should make the error messages stand out more.

Billytea, see my post above:

Ok. I don't find the scroll thing so annoying, myself; after all, it's only an issue when changing taglines. It seems to me that having to count your own taglines, or having administrators check tagline liength, would be more annoying.

It may be more of an issue that the code on the People site? I regularly had taglines over 50 characters (under 255, though; I had my own ideas about what was reasonable). It's possible to get around it if you want. (Don't know if that'd be the case here, or if there's a simple fix.)

I think it's not just scrolling. Oftentimes, folks will copy and paste a new tagline. If there are carriage returns in the copied text, I don't think more than the first line will paste into a single-line textbox. With a multi-line textbox, it all pastes in with no problems.

Grr. I hate counting my own characters.

I may be a minion of the evil empire, but I do like MSW's wordcount feature.

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.

Oh, this is something silly I meant to ask a while ago. For WX, on the login page, you could just tab out of the password box and it'd start processing your login automatically. I just thought that was so cool.

Since there's already one piece of JS on the login page, could there be the one that does that? 'Cause I don't know what it is, but every time I used it it made me happy.

You mean hit "enter", not "tab out", don't you? I've never heard of the latter. I don't know how to code the "enter" thing, but someone else probably does.

Dude, check it out. Type your stuff then tab out, or click anywhere outside the password box.