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maumrm
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5 years ago

Inserting Text instead of Keying

I need to be able to verify the maximum characters allowed can be saved into various forms on an online web application. The objects are considered "textarea" are do not allow the SetText method, but...
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Marsha_R
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5 years ago

Here's how you do it from a variable, but if you are restricted to Keys, then it will still take a lot of time because Keys is meant to simulate a person typing.

 

Create a variable to hold your max characters

Use that variable as the input for Keys

 

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tphillips
Frequent Contributor
5 years ago

Can you directly set the .text or .wText (or similar) property for the textarea? Rather than using a SetText() or Keys() method?

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    maumrm
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    5 years ago

    Hi tphillips - this is what I am wondering, I am not sure how this could be done. it would be nice to be able to take a variable which stores the 4000 character text string and use that to set the property for innertext, textContent.