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Bug 6973 - Support <textarea>.textLength
Summary: Support <textarea>.textLength
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js...
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Keywords: NoReply
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Reported: 2009-05-28 12:34 UTC by Anne
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:49 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Anne 2009-05-28 12:34:54 UTC 
Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera all support the textLength DOM attribute on <textarea>. Sites rely on it as well as far as I know.

Newlines are counted differently in browsers. Have not checked whether it counts 16-bit units, actual characters, etc. Also not sure whether any of these details matter, but long term it would be good if they were clear.
Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 14:48:11 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
  http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.