Line Limit

[chris9902]

i have a flash animation that people can post a message in a javascript form. It goes into flash but i am trying to limit the number of lines of text someone can post, i have a letter limit but if you have to many lines then it just keeps going and the flash movie does not scroll.

can anyone help

[Gollum]

Assuming your text comes from a <textarea> element, have a look at the following...

<form name=f>
<textarea name=t></textarea>
<button onclick="alert(document.f.t.value.match(/\n/g).length);">Count</button>
</form>

Should give you some pointers