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Mar 04.2009

I have already added a textbox with chars count script. The problem is that when people copy and paste a huge spam line, example:eadadadsadfudad copied and repasted non stop is keeps going on one textbox line. THis causes the post to be completely messed up. What im asking is how can i make so the text box always goes down to the next line when the first is finished and doesnt keep going.

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[img]http://i40.tinypic.com/295cy0m.jpg[/img]

stop this from happening:
[img]http://i40.tinypic.com/2h7hv9y.jpg[/img]

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@NXInteractifMar 04.2009 — The "wrap" attribute of the <textarea> tag does work in most browsers, however, it fails if a word is simply way to long. For example, if you have a textarea where cols="10" and the text entered is "Hello, world. This is my text" then it should wrap provided you've set the wrap attribute. However, if the text entered is "Looooooooooooooooooooooooooong word" then the word "Looooooooooooooooooooooooong" will cause horizontal scrolling.
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@omnicityMar 04.2009 — I would suggest that you write a function that inserts a space every dozen or so chars unless it finds a space itself. Not too many words in English exceed that length - but it is just off the top of my head: best of all is to work out what the maximum word length that could possibly fit into your text box. Some languages, such as German, can have extremely long words by our standards.

Try a regExp that searches for 12 occurrances of anything except whitespace, then replace with same group, plus a space or a hyphen or something.
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