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    <p>I want to achieve a character counter that displays the number of characters you've typed in a Textbox on my webpage in ASP.NET. This Textbox is nested in a DetailsView.</p> <p>The normal solution of including (character count script)+(onkeypress for Textbox)+(Readonly input) as listed below wasn't working:</p> <p>The script:</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; function textCounter(field, countfield, maxlimit) { if (field.value.length &gt; maxlimit) field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlimit); else countfield.value = maxlimit - field.value.length; } &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>The Textbox:</p> <pre><code>&lt;asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" onkeyup="textCounter(TextBox1, this.DetailsView.remLen, 300);" onkeydown="textCounter(TextBox1, this.DetailsView.remLen, 300);" TextMode="MultiLine" Text='&lt;%# Bind("idea") %&gt;'&gt;&lt;/asp:TextBox&gt; </code></pre> <p>And the Input (which is in the DetailsView):</p> <pre><code>&lt;input readonly="readonly" type="text" name="remLen" value="300" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then I <a href="http://www.rosshawkins.net/archive/2006/12/04/asp.net-text-counter.html.aspx" rel="nofollow">found out</a> that having a Textbox nested in a DetailsView screws up the naming convention of the textbox. I tried the C# solution in that link but it couldn't work...</p> <p>How can I make this work? JQuery seems to be an answer but I have no idea where some code like <code>var Text = $("span[id$=TextBox1]");</code> would fit into my files. Need help!</p> <p>I'm working with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express in VB (I'm a noob who uses mainly the graphic UI of the program with some programming experience on Android in Java). Wouldn't mind a C# solution if someone had one.</p>
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    1. COHi guys, thanks for your answers. I'm sorry but another project of mine required my attention, hence the late reply. None of the 2 solutions below work for me, the input still won't be edited according to how many characters there are in the textbox. If it helps my textbox is in an ASP <templatefield> within a <detailsview>; I had it converted to a templatefield. I'm going to look for solutions whereby a warning appears whenever the users types more than 300 characters or something, without the visual of how many chars he has left.
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