Displaying characters left in Text box

[Jacques]

I added a Form in Frontpage 2003 and the input goes into an Access database.
I would like to add a script that displays in real time the number of
characters remaining in a Text box.
I found an example at
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/limitinput.htm but I can't
integrate it well in my page because their example speak of: <form
name="sampleform"> while in Frontpage, I don't see a form name, I see this
instead :
<form method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">.

Can you help ?

 

[Steve Easton]

Add the name to the opening form tag like this.
<form name="sampleform method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">.


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[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you are using FP Form File Validation, you will also not be able to use any 3rd party script
without some work, which thereafter you will not be able to manage the form field validation via FP.
So you need to consider how import this function really is to the users of your site, as with FP
form field validation you can limit the maximum amount of data that can be inserted.

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[Kevin Spencer]

Why don't you give the form a name?

<form name="sampleform" method="POST" action="--WEBBOT-SELF--" onSubmit="">

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[Jacques]

Your solution worked.
But then I added some text box validation in Frontpage (by doublew clicking
on the text box) and now, if for example, there was : 20 characters left, the
20 doesn;'t decrease as I type in the text box.
Is there a way to have both things at the same time ?

Jacques