Encoding special characters can be tricky, especially when you have clients with custom CMSs who like to copy and paste all the em dashes and trademark symbols from word into your web based text area. Now I have found a solution for my needs!
Limit and display the number of characters available in a text area using my little add on script to the Prototype JavaScript library. Very easy to implement, and great feedback to your form filler-outers.
Time for some learnin’ & JavaScriptin’ One thing I had to do for a client a while back was create a JavaScript body mass index calculator. She just wanted 2 fields: Height (inches) Weight (pounds) On that same page she also had a table displaying the translation of BMI calculations from the CDC Website. BMI [...]