FAQ: Learn HTML: Form Validation - Checking Text Length

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Checking Text Length” exercise from the lesson “Learn HTML: Form Validation”.

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Introduction to HTML

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For the method attribute what are the differences between POST and GET?
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4 posts were split to a new topic: Where is data on a website stored?

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2 posts were split to a new topic: For the method attribute what are the differences between POST and GET?

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Easter egg? ilovecoding

Poking around, I noticed on the login.js that a message will appear (or should) when one enters a username of “codecademy” and a pw of “ilovecoding” however mine did not…

SOOO… what would I need to do to make the exercise index.html run this particular portion of JS (easter egg? :egg::sunflower surprise!)?

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Not sure what the problem might be from just that. Mine worked.

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I , i’ve been learning here for a while now, and i’m curious where these related stylesheet are from?like this one link href=“https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fjalla+One” rel=“stylesheet” are they downloaded from google or what?

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google has a whole bunch apis and CDNs you can use, these files are fetched from the internet. Although, no doubt some caching is happening

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2 posts were split to a new topic: Whats the difference between max and maxlength?

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Where is the code that interprets the form submission?

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A slight tangent to the exercise here, but in the element, there is a class=“overlay” attribute. What does this do?

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Just FYI, in case it’s not been pointed out, the example code in the label says “Summarize your fillings.” Fine if this is for a dentist’s website… but I assume you meant “feelings.”

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In this exercise: https://www.codecademy.com/courses/learn-html/lessons/html-form-validation/exercises/minlength-maxlength
can the min/max or minlength/maxlength be used in the <textarea> element?

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Sounds like a question you could consult documentation on:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea

I see the attributes in the docs, which means you can use them