Hi All.

Was wondering if anyone could steer me in a direction of how to accomplish this.

I want to emulate somthing that a company I worked for had on one of their
pages.

They had a form field for input. Right next to it there was a character countdown
that let you know how many characters were left to use.

For instance if the form field was set to take 250 characters for instance. As you
typed the figure decreased to show you how many characters were left. And it
did this in real time.

The pages were asp so I am assuming that is what they used. but, I guess they
may have had a javaScript running on the page as well.

Any suggestions as to the best way to accomplish this?


Thanks, Chip

Google brought me this nifty little javascript...
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...imitinput2.htm

eDan - Thanks - works like a charm..!

Sweet, im glad i could help!! Oh btw... nice avatar

Hey Dan, Just noticed you are in Georgia.. Me and my wife just moved to Savannah about 2 months ago.. We love it!

That's a cool script Dan found.

But one caveat: for the non-JS types, you may want to have a validation check once the form input is gathered.

e.g.

Dim Your_Field
Your_Field = Request.Form ("Your_Field")
if len (Your_Field) > 250 then
    '  Do whatever since the field is too long.
end if

It never hurts to cover your ***.

Good catch ADAM
I like to do server side validation too and am not very fond of JS.

waaaay off topic
Hey Chip!! Welcome to the "dirty south"... It's a small world! Even though I live here, I dont think of it as home. I prefer the cool dry weather of the west. Savannah is a nice place though, I'm in Columbus----> directly across the state from you.