While developing web applications using HTML, we usually need to create forms. These can either be for user registration, feedback, or anything else.
We use input elements in HTML to take input from the user. Sometimes, we may want to restrict the length of the input by the user.
For example, let’s take a user’s userid as input. We can limit it to some specific length like 10. The user can now only enter 10 characters.
We can do this using the maxlength attribute on input elements in HTML.
We can use the following syntax for this:
<input maxlength="number" />
Here, number limits the number of characters that the user can enter.
Let’s take an example to understand it better.
In the following example, we take User ID as input. Here, the user can enter only 10 characters because we give the maxlength attribute to the input element as 10.
<html><head></head><body><div id="content"><form><label for="userid">User ID:</label><!-- provide maxlength attribute --><input id="userid" type="text" maxlength="10" ></form></div></body></html>
Enter the user id in the input box below: