Limiting length of posts on a FrontPage discussion board

[Guest]

Hello-

I have created a simple FrontPage discussion board for a church Website, and
I was wondering if there was a way to limit the length of posts that could be
made to this website (either with a character limit or line limit).

I'd appreciate any help on this issue.

Thanks!

Sarah

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Hi Sarah,

There is script that will check the length of the input as it is typed into the field. The following code, from CandyPress eCommerce
(http://www.candypress.com), displays the length of the text entered whenever an key stroke is done.

<input type="text" name="ExtraCaption" value="<% =server.HTMLEncode(ExtraCaption & "") %>" onKeyDown="this.form[this.name +
'Count'].value = this.value.length" onKeyUp="this.form[this.name + 'Count'].value = this.value.length" size="77"><br>
Text Count:
<input type="text" name="ExtraCaptionCount" size="2" class="textCounter">

It would be very simple to take the above and add a check to limit the number of characters that my be entered.

 

[Andrew Murray]

can't the form field validation in FP be used with the Discussion board?
just enter the max characters in the appropriate field.

Hi Sarah,

There is script that will check the length of the input as it is typed
into the field. The following code, from CandyPress eCommerce
(http://www.candypress.com), displays the length of the text entered
whenever an key stroke is done.

<input type="text" name="ExtraCaption" value="<%
=server.HTMLEncode(ExtraCaption & "") %>" onKeyDown="this.form[this.name +
'Count'].value = this.value.length" onKeyUp="this.form[this.name +
'Count'].value = this.value.length" size="77"><br>
Text Count:
<input type="text" name="ExtraCaptionCount" size="2"
class="textCounter">

It would be very simple to take the above and add a check to limit the
number of characters that my be entered.

--
Mike -- FrontPage MVP '97 - '02
http://www.websunlimited.com
FrontPage Add-in

Hello-

I have created a simple FrontPage discussion board for a church Website,
and
I was wondering if there was a way to limit the length of posts that
could be
made to this website (either with a character limit or line limit).

I'd appreciate any help on this issue.

Thanks!

Sarah