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Text Area helper , how to set maxlength.

Text Area helper , how i set the maximum length of string to 100. Is there is any max length attribute in text-area helper in ROR. Code will help me.Thanks ...

HTML - How can i disable auto text correction in my TEXTAREA???

My textarea contains C# code, so i get red underlines all over the place, is there any way to disable auto correction on a TEXTAREA in html code? Thank ...

drag drop of UIComponent in TextFlow of Sparks TextArea

I would like to add a UIComponent of variable width and height into the textFlow of a Sparks TextArea. I managed to get the drag and drop working via InlineGraphicElement, but I have to add the UIComponent to some invisible Group first, where its size is calculated. protected function test_dragDropHandler(event:DragEvent):void ...

check text area for certain character combinations

I have a text area which gets filled in various ways including paste, keyboard input, from an autocomplete etc. Now I want to validate this text area and if contains any combination, including multiples of some characters and if so, set it to empty. The characters I want to filter are: tabs, new lines, spaces, carriage returns, as wel...

Fixed text at end of textarea

Hello, Is there any way to get a fixed, default text on the end of the text in a textarea? Why? I have a textarea to make twitter stsatuses, and at the end, every user have to have their signature. So I want to have it in the text, that they can't delete. Any code or plugin to do that? ...

JQuery textarea/input value doesn't seem to get updated

For some reason $('#comment').html() returns the the default html, but any change to the text doesn't seem to be noticed after calling alert($('#comment').html()); <form> <textarea id="comment" name="comment" rows="10" cols="60">input your comment</textarea><br /> <div id="submit_comment">Submit Comment</div> </form> ...

How to shrink a TextArea

Hello, i am using YUI 3.1 Library from Yahoo and also the TextExpander to let a TextArea to grow up when a user type. The code below initialize the TextArea: YUI({gallery: 'gallery-2010.03.23-17-54' }).use("node", 'gallery-text-expander', function(Y) { Y.one('#myTextArea').plug(Y.TextExpander); }); It's work perfectly but now...

HTML textarea min-width ignored when width is set

The min-width seems to be ignored, I cannot scale less than 200px; Any workaround? <textarea style='width:200px; max-width:400px; min-width:100px'> text </textarea> ...

Highlighting a piece of string in a TextArea

Hi everybody, I'm trying to highlight a piece of text in a "Textarea". I have a long string in that TextArea: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo conseq...

How can I scroll to and possibly highlight text within div with overflow: true?

I have a div that contains some text content and I'd like to scroll and possibly highlight this within Javascript. I found this link that describes how to scroll an entire page, but it doesn't seem to work when only using a div. Update I just attempted 2 approaches. Only the uncommented one worked, but it didn't really scroll enough....

How to add an image at a specific location in Flex/Spark TextArea or TextFlow

I have a Spark TextArea: <s:TextArea id="editor"> <s:textFlow> <s:TextFlow id="_tf" > <s:p>Lorem ipsum etc.</s:p> <s:p> <s:img source="http://example.com/example.jpg" /> </s:p> <s:p>Aliquam tincidunt tempor etc.</s:p> </s:TextFlow> </s:textFlow> </...

textArea and CodeMirror: How to fill text area and highlight?

Hello, I have a folloowing: textarea and button, I would like to fill it by predefined text and in meantime make a syntax highlighting with CodeMirror: $('#query1').button() .click(function() { $('#queryText').val(<?php echo $queryArray[0];?>); } Then: <form id="queryFrom" name="que...

jQuery to validate HTML in a TextArea

I have a TextArea which allows the user to enter HTML, what I am now trying to do is to validate the users HTML to ensure it is XHTML. Any ideas? ...

How to center a textarea using CSS?

Forgive me for asking such a simple question, I'm new to both HTML and CSS. Is there an easy way to center a textarea? I figured I'd just try using textarea{ margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } but it (obviously?) didn't work. Help would be much appreciated :-) ...

Set text in textarea with PHP

Hi How can I set the text of a textarea object in PHP, is it necessary to use javascript. I want to have one textarea, and be able to set the text that is displayed at different times. Thanks ...

How to best calculate the bytes of text in a TextArea

I need to find a way to accurately calculate the byte size of the text inside a particular textarea. I am working in .Net so I have access to those libraries, but I'd prefer a Javascript solution. How many bytes is each character worth? What would be the most efficient way to count and multiply? Or am I missing a better way entirely?...

How to draw a box around the text when i've selected the text with mouse in Text area?

i have used enter code here textArea1=new TextArea(); String s=textArea1.getSelectedText(); g.drawRect(s.length(),s.length(),s.length(),s.length()); but it is not getting.please help me. ...

Limit width of formatted user input - Javascript, CSS or jQuery

How do you prevent formatted user input past a max width? (e.g., 800 pixels) The user input is formatted because it is entered into a WYSIWYG text editor (CK Editor). This solution doesn't work: // Replicate user input in hidden div // Check width // If width > 800px, remove characters ...because you'd be removing characters fro...

In flex, how to remove empty lines in text area?

In flex, how to remove empty lines in text area? ...

How can I create an html input text area such that I can underline or format certain words?

I'd like an input field that I can have javascript set certain attributes for, for different parts of the input field. A simple example to demonstrate what I'd like to do: let's say I want to underline all curse words in an input text area. So the javascript would check the input text area when a new letter is inserted, and for any word...