Help with textrea

[rmittal]

I have a textarea which accepts 358 characters. I want the first 3 characters to be "***" and these should not be editable i.e. the user should start entering data after these first 3 characters. How do I do this?

 

[froggerIII]

i don't know if you decided to use the code i gave you before, but if you are testing the length of the textarea on an onkeypress event, you could also do something like this in that event handler: (assuming string is the value of the textarea)

if (string.indexOf("***&quot != 0) {
alert("You may not edit the first 3 characters of this textarea"
return false;
}

 

[DubnerM]

BTW. Why not to use:
***<input...
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