In programming a textarea for a web application, I had the need to display to
the user the amount of characters to go before the maximum length of the
textarea was reached. I found a .NET library on line called skmControls2.dll
that provides a textBoxCounter control. Documentation can be found at:
http://scottonwriting.net/sowblog/codeprojects.htm
Below
is an example of the use of the control with some of its
properties:
TextBoxCounter
tbc = new
TextBoxCounter();
tbc.TextBoxControlId =
commentBox.ID;
tbc.TreatCarriageReturnsAsOneCharacter = true;
tbc.MaxCharacterLength =
500;
tbc.DataFormatString = " Characters entered = {1}.";
tbc.CssClass = "CharacterNorm";
tbc.WarningPercentage =
95;
tbc.CssClassForWarning = "CharacterWarn";
