<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Chris Taylor <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:Chris.Taylor@figureout.com">Chris.Taylor@figureout.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">It&#39;s been mentioned before about limiting the length of text permissible in a &lt;textarea&gt; element, specifically for forums.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>&lt;textarea&gt; is defined to support maxlength already ( <a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element">http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element</a> ).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think &quot;pattern&quot; is significantly less valuable than &quot;maxlength&quot;, but it wouldn&#39;t be too difficult to add support for it.  I vote weakly against.</div><div><br></div><div>PK</div>
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