Hello, does anybody know why we are taught to write minlength/ maxlength in text areas, when as min/max is understood and renders the same. Is it a better code? Does it render differently in other browsers if it is not written minlength/maxlength in text areas?
thank you
Hello py
Notice that minlenght/maxlength and min/max serve different purposes.
According to w3fools, “the max and min attributes works with the following input types: number, range, date, datetime, datetime-local, month, time and week.”
I don’t still get this… will it still perform the same task of modifying the length of text if used for a text input? if yes then can it be used as a replacement since this is shorter, if no then what can min/max do and where does it work?
I may be late in here, but found this:
max: Valid for date , month , week , time , datetime-local , number , and range , it defines the greatest value in the range of permitted values.
maxlength: Valid for text , search , url , tel , email , and password , it defines the maximum number of characters (as UTF-16 code units) the user can enter into the field.
So as I understand here, max is better used for input types related with numbers.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Here the link:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input#htmlattrdefmax
Thank you for breaking this down. It makes sense