Struts textarea problem

[Shashidahanu Iyyanar]

Hi All,
I have a small problem.I want to restrict the numbers of characters to be entered into a <html:textarea> to 250 characters.The user should not be prompted for any error popup message but should not be allowed to enter more than 250 characters.How is this possible using Struts?A example would be a much better option.Thanks in advance.

[Raymond Villeno]

you can do that with javascript

[alan do]

uh...don't blame struts, blame HTML. have an 'onkeydown' call a javascript method to do a character count and gives a warning. you can also use the struts validatation framework to do the job (try the maxlength rule or write your custom validation).