Maxlength for text area doesn't work in IE

Question

I am trying to limit the number of characters entered in a textarea as shown:

<div>  @Html.TextAreaFor(x => x.StudentName, new { @maxlength = "1000" }) </div> 

This works fine in Firefox and Chrome but the maxlength attribute doesn't work in IE. How do I do that??

Answer 1

The maxlength attribute is not standard for <textarea> in HTML 4.01. It is defined in HTML5 though but I guess IE doesn't implement it. To make it work across all browsers you could use javascript. Here's an example.