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Using jQuery How We Can Limit Number of Characters in Textarea or Textbox

Category > JQUERY || Published on : Saturday, August 9, 2014 || Views: 13613 || jQuery tips & tricks how to limit characters inside a textarea JQueyLimit jquerytextarea

Introduction:

Here Pawan Kumar will explain how to use jQuery to limit number of characters in textarea(textbox) in ASP.NET.This will work even when user is copying and pasting text into the textarea or textbox or in other words how can we use jQuery to restrict textbox's or textarea's length with detailed example.

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Now I will explain how to use jQuery to limit number of characters in textarea(textbox)

So follow the steps to learn and Using  jQuery How We Can Limit Number of Characters in Textarea or Textbox.

Step 1: First, we start by creating an Empty ASP.NET web site in Visual Studio .NET 2010.

Step 2: Create an ASPX Page for Right Click on Solution Explorer > Add Items > Web > Webform and save it as "Default.aspx".When we first open our Default.aspx page

Step 3: Add the jQuery CDN like below to the default page.To implement this we need to write the code lilke as shown below

 

Must Read: Load jQuery .js file even if the Google CDN is down

Step 4:  Write the jQuery Codes like below:-

Step 5: Complete Source Code

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %>

"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    
    
    


    "textarea1"</span> cols=<span style=" color: Maroon;">"20"</span> rows=<span style=" color: Maroon;">"8"</span>>

    "spnRemaining">150 Characters left

Step 6: Output will be like below screenshot.

Conclusion:
So, In this tutorial we have learned, Using  jQuery How We Can Limit Number of Characters in Textarea or Text in ASP.NET with detailed explanation.

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