<textarea> capacity? (html)

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Antinaris
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<textarea> capacity? (html)

Post by Antinaris »

What is a capacity (maximum length) for <textarea>? I'm facing a problem when I fill the <textarea> with large amount of data and then trying to hit the submit button, the form is not submitting. Then when I put a few words in the <textarea> it's submitted perfectly.
How to overcome it?
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JayBird
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Post by JayBird »

Ther are different limits with different browsers on different OSes.
Usual numbers are 64K(64,000 characters) and - for more modern browsers - 128K(128,000 characters) - older browsers as low as 32K(32,000 characters).

This information comes from a lot of "hearsay", I've read people saying it several places, but I've yet to find any specific official information which supports this or denies it.

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Post by malcolmboston »

lets put it this way.................enough,

even with 32k characters on older browsers you would never fill this up
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