I'd personally prefer a note saying no more than 255, because I like to keep a record of past tags in my profile, and if I can past the new tag into the box and then cut the old tag out and put it into my general profile box, it's easier than pasting the new tag into the location bar at the top of my screen, cutting the old tag and pasting it into the profile box, and then picking the new tag back up from the location bar and pasting it into the tagline box.

But that's just me and my silliness.

But that's just me and my silliness.

It's more important to avoid people having to count the characters in their taglines. You'll work out another way.

For service like this I'm gonna have to find a ventilated box and some chloroform.

And maybe a ladder, or protective padding.

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.