Introduction: In previous articles i explained how to show Delete confirmation box before delete Or Yes/No confirmation in asp.net and How to add meta description,meta keywords tags from code behind in asp.net(C#, VB) and How to get current page URL/Address in asp.net and Convert Rupees,Currency or Numbers to Words in Asp.net and Get age in years,months,days,hours and seconds from DOB in asp.net and Get city,state and country based on zip code using Google map API in asp.net Now In this post I will explain with example how to count and display remaining characters in the multiline textbox in asp.net. While working on asp.net applications we sometimes need to create a form having multiline text box. e.g. For allowing user to enter their comments/messages/reviews. And we want the user can enter only 150 character long comment/message/review. In this case it will be better idea to display the remaining character while entering comment/message/review.
Implementation: Let’s understand by an example.
- In the <HEAD> tag of the design page(.aspx) create or copy paste the JavaScript functions as:
<script type="text/javascript">
function characterCounter(controlId, countControlId,
maxCharlimit) {
if (controlId.value.length >
maxCharlimit)
controlId.value =
controlId.value.substring(0, maxCharlimit);
else
countControlId.value =
maxCharlimit - controlId.value.length;
}
</script>
- In the <BODY> tag create or copy and paste the following:
<fieldset style="width:280px;">
<legend>Counting
Remaining Characters example</legend>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtComments" Width="280px" Rows="4" Columns="12" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" onkeyup="characterCounter(txtComments, this.form.remCount,
150);" onkeydown="characterCounter(txtComments, this.form.remCount,
150);" />
<input
type="text" name="remCount" size="3" maxlength="3" value="150" readonly="readonly" /> characters left
</fieldset>
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