Setting maxlength of textbox with JavaScript or jQuery

Question

I want to change the maxlength of a textbox with JavaScript or jQuery: I tried the following but it didn't seem to help:

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('input'); for(var i=0; i<a.length; i++) {     if((a[i].type!= 'radio')||(a[i].type!= 'checkbox'))         a[i].maxlength = 5; } document.getElementsByTagName('input')[1].maxlength="3";  $().ready(function() {     $("#inputID").maxlength(6); }); 

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Not sure what you are trying to accomplish on your first few lines but you can try this:

$(document).ready(function() {     $("#ms_num").attr('maxlength','6'); });