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.
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
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§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 3:08:05 pm PST #997 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
bon bon - Oct 28, 2002 3:11:04 pm PST #998 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
For service like this I'm gonna have to find a ventilated box and some chloroform.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 3:14:16 pm PST #999 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And maybe a ladder, or protective padding.
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 3:16:28 pm PST #1000 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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).
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 3:17:37 pm PST #1001 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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?
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 3:23:28 pm PST #1002 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not yet.
Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 7:37:51 pm PST #1003 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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."
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 8:24:06 pm PST #1004 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Grr. I hate counting my own characters.
Rob - Oct 28, 2002 8:31:58 pm PST #1005 of 10000
Is this board a javascript-free zone? If not, I bet you could do it with javascript.
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 8:33:48 pm PST #1006 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?