[whatwg] Text areas with pattern attributes?

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:14:51 +0200, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Peter Kasting<pkasting at google.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Chris Taylor  
>> <Chris.Taylor at figureout.com>
>> wrote:
>>> It's been mentioned before about limiting the length of text  
>>> permissible
>>> in a <textarea> element, specifically for forums.
>>
>> <textarea> is defined to support maxlength already
>> (  
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element  
>> ).
>
> There's no minlength, though.

Also, maxlength cannot be enforced as client-side validation requirement due to compatibility issues.


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