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Suggestion: limit dynamically the number of characters in the Event description box

Gwyneth Llewelyn
Winking Loudmouth
Join date: 31 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,336
07-11-2006 01:18
Hi all,

Being an enthusiast of "long" event blurb descriptions, I tend to overstep the 1024-character limit rather quickly :) The solution I use is to type it first on an external application and count characters, to make sure I don't overstep my limit, since the alternative is getting a "too many characters" error and having to write the event description from scratch.

Since most browsers have JavaScript enabled these days, a possible workaround is just to implement some of the ideas mentioned on this article: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/textarea.html. Naturally enough, you should keep the current code, for the ones using, say, text-only browsers to post events or having JavaScript disabled.

That "fix" should take your web designers just about 2 minutes of copying & pasting any one of those (tiny) scripts and placing them on the "edit event page" — and save us all a lot of time :)

Thanks in advance,

- Gwyn
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Robin Linden
Linden Lifer
Join date: 25 Nov 2002
Posts: 1,224
07-11-2006 06:13
Great idea Gwyn! I'm passing it over to Jesse for a closer look with our web team.
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