How to override textbox's maxlength Properties for longer characters to store

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How to override textbox's maxlength Properties for longer(>32767) characters to store.such as 10000000.thank you.

Posted 4-Jun-11 5:58am

pucx

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Are you certifiably insane?

It's the only reason I can think of for even considering trying to put 32K characters into a textbox, much less 10,000,000.
Do you seriously expect the poor sod of a user to either a) read or b) type that much?

What are you trying to achieve with such an idea?

Posted 4-Jun-11 6:04am

OriginalGriff

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Jun-11 17:20pm

Good point, tough post though. A 5.
--SA

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Set Textbox property

MaxLength="10000000"

Please follow the links below:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.textbox.maxlength.aspx[^]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.textbox.maxlength.aspx[^]

Posted 4-Jun-11 6:24am

Monjurul Habib

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Jun-11 17:21pm

My 4. See the answer by Morph King.
--SA

Monjurul Habib 5-Jun-11 18:26pm

ok, thank you.

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Morph King · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-04T06:03:00

(1) Max Length never affects what a program can put in a text box, it only
affects what a user can type into the text box. So if you're running into a
limit, the limit is coming from somewhere else.

(2) I think a rich edit box has a larger limit than an ordinary edit box.
If your text box is an edit box, try a rich edit box.

(3)From MSDN (TextBoxBase::MaxLength): If the MaxLength property is set to 0, the maximum number of characters the user can enter is 2147483646 or an amount based on available memory, whichever is smaller.