It seems the minlength attribute for an <input> field doesn't work.
Is there any other attribute in HTML with the help of which I can set the minimal length of a value for fields?
You can use the pattern attribute. The required attribute is also needed, otherwise an input field with an empty value will be excluded from constraint validation.
<input pattern=".{3,}" required title="3 characters minimum">
<input pattern=".{5,10}" required title="5 to 10 characters">
If you want to create the option to use the pattern for "empty, or minimum length", you could do the following:
<input pattern=".{0}|.{5,10}" required title="Either 0 OR (5 to 10 chars)">
<input pattern=".{0}|.{8,}" required title="Either 0 OR (8 chars minimum)">
There is a minlength property in the HTML5 specification now, as well as the validity.tooShort interface.
Both are now enabled in recent versions of all modern browsers. For details, see https://caniuse.com/#search=minlength.
Here is HTML5-only solution (if you want minlength 5, maxlength 10 character validation)
http://jsfiddle.net/xhqsB/102/
<form>
<input pattern=".{5,10}">
<input type="submit" value="Check"></input>
</form>
Yes, there it is. It's like maxlength. W3.org documentation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#attr-fe-minlength
In case minlength doesn't work, use the pattern attribute as mentioned by #Pumbaa80 for the input tag.
For textarea:
For setting max; use maxlength and for min go to this link.
You will find here both for max and min.
I used maxlength and minlength with or without required and it worked for me very well for HTML5.
<input id="passcode" type="password" minlength="8" maxlength="10">
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minlength attribute is now widely supported in most of the browsers.
<input type="text" minlength="2" required>
But, as with other HTML5 features, IE11 is missing from this panorama. So, if you have a wide IE11 user base, consider using the pattern HTML5 attribute that is supported almost across the board in most browsers (including IE11).
To have a nice and uniform implementation and maybe extensible or dynamic (based on the framework that generate your HTML), I would vote for the pattern attribute:
<input type="text" pattern=".{2,}" required>
There is still a small usability catch when using pattern. The user will see a non-intuitive (very generic) error/warning message when using pattern. See this jsfiddle or below:
<h3>In each form type 1 character and press submit</h3>
</h2>
<form action="#">
Input with minlength: <input type="text" minlength="2" required name="i1">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<br>
<form action="#">
Input with patern: <input type="text" pattern=".{2,}" required name="i1">
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
For example, in Chrome (but similar in most browsers), you will get the following error messages:
Please lengthen this text to 2 characters or more (you are currently using 1 character)
by using minlength and
Please match the format requested
by using pattern.
I notice that sometimes in Chrome when autofill is on and the fields are field by the autofill browser build in method, it bypasses the minlength validation rules, so in this case you will have to disable autofill by the following attribute:
autocomplete="off"
<input autocomplete="new-password" name="password" id="password" type="password" placeholder="Password" maxlength="12" minlength="6" required />
The minLength attribute (unlike maxLength) does not exist natively in HTML5. However, there a some ways to validate a field if it contains less than x characters.
An example is given using jQuery at this link: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/Methods/minlength
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jzaefferer.github.com/jquery-validation/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.validator.setDefaults({
debug: true,
success: "valid"
});;
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#myform").validate({
rules: {
field: {
required: true,
minlength: 3
}
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myform">
<label for="field">Required, Minimum length 3: </label>
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<br/>
<input type="submit" value="Validate!" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Not HTML5, but practical anyway: if you happen to use AngularJS, you can use ng-minlength (or data-ng-minlength) for both inputs and textareas. See also this Plunk.
My solution for textarea using jQuery and combining HTML5 required validation to check the minimum length.
minlength.js
$(document).ready(function(){
$('form textarea[minlength]').on('keyup', function(){
e_len = $(this).val().trim().length
e_min_len = Number($(this).attr('minlength'))
message = e_min_len <= e_len ? '' : e_min_len + ' characters minimum'
this.setCustomValidity(message)
})
})
HTML
<form action="">
<textarea name="test_min_length" id="" cols="30" rows="10" minlength="10"></textarea>
</form>
See http://caniuse.com/#search=minlength. Some browsers may not support this attribute.
If the value of the "type" is one of them:
text, email, search, password, tel, or URL (warning: not include number | no browser support "tel" now - 2017.10)
Use the minlength(/ maxlength) attribute. It specifies the minimum number of characters.
For example,
<input type="text" minlength="11" maxlength="11" pattern="[0-9]*" placeholder="input your phone number">
Or use the "pattern" attribute:
<input type="text" pattern="[0-9]{11}" placeholder="input your phone number">
If the "type" is number, although minlength(/ maxlength) is not be supported, you can use the min(/ max) attribute instead of it.
For example,
<input type="number" min="100" max="999" placeholder="input a three-digit number">
New version:
It extends the use (textarea and input) and fixes bugs.
// Author: Carlos Machado
// Version: 0.2
// Year: 2015
window.onload = function() {
function testFunction(evt) {
var items = this.elements;
for (var j = 0; j < items.length; j++) {
if ((items[j].tagName == "INPUT" || items[j].tagName == "TEXTAREA") && items[j].hasAttribute("minlength")) {
if (items[j].value.length < items[j].getAttribute("minlength") && items[j].value != "") {
items[j].setCustomValidity("The minimum number of characters is " + items[j].getAttribute("minlength") + ".");
items[j].focus();
evt.defaultPrevented;
return;
}
else {
items[j].setCustomValidity('');
}
}
}
}
var isOpera = !!window.opera || navigator.userAgent.indexOf(' OPR/') >= 0;
var isChrome = !!window.chrome && !isOpera;
if(!isChrome) {
var forms = document.getElementsByTagName("form");
for(var i = 0; i < forms.length; i++) {
forms[i].addEventListener('submit', testFunction,true);
forms[i].addEventListener('change', testFunction,true);
}
}
}
I wrote this JavaScript code, [minlength.js]:
window.onload = function() {
function testaFunction(evt) {
var elementos = this.elements;
for (var j = 0; j < elementos.length; j++) {
if (elementos[j].tagName == "TEXTAREA" && elementos[j].hasAttribute("minlength")) {
if (elementos[j].value.length < elementos[j].getAttribute("minlength")) {
alert("The textarea control must be at least " + elementos[j].getAttribute("minlength") + " characters.");
evt.preventDefault();
};
}
}
}
var forms = document.getElementsByTagName("form");
for(var i = 0; i < forms.length; i++) {
forms[i].addEventListener('submit', testaFunction, true);
}
}
In my case, in which I validate the most manually and using Firefox (43.0.4), minlength and validity.tooShort are not available unfortunately.
Since I only need to have minimum lengths stored to proceed, an easy and handy way is to assign this value to another valid attribute of the input tag. In that case then, you can use min, max, and step properties from [type="number"] inputs.
Rather than storing those limits in an array it's easier to find it stored in the same input instead of getting the element id to match the array index.
I used max and min then required, and it worked for me very well, but what am not sure is if it is a but coding method.
<input type="text" maxlength="13" name ="idnumber" class="form-control" minlength="13" required>
If desired to make this behavior, always show a small prefix on the input field or the user can't erase a prefix:
// prefix="prefix_text"
// If the user changes the prefix, restore the input with the prefix:
if(document.getElementById('myInput').value.substring(0,prefix.length).localeCompare(prefix))
document.getElementById('myInput').value = prefix;
Following #user123444555621 pinned answer.
There is a minlength attribute in HTML5 but for some reason it may not always work as expected.
I had a case where my input type text did not obey the minlength="3" property.
By using the pattern attribute I managed to fix my problem.
Here's an example of using pattern to ensure minlength validation:
const folderNameInput = document.getElementById("folderName");
folderNameInput.addEventListener('focus', setFolderNameValidityMessage);
folderNameInput.addEventListener('input', setFolderNameValidityMessage);
function setFolderNameValidityMessage() {
if (folderNameInput.validity.patternMismatch || folderNameInput.validity.valueMissing) {
folderNameInput.setCustomValidity('The folder name must contain between 3 and 50 chars');
} else {
folderNameInput.setCustomValidity('');
}
}
:root {
--color-main-red: rgb(230, 0, 0);
--color-main-green: rgb(95, 255, 143);
}
form input {
border: 1px solid black;
outline: none;
}
form input:invalid:focus {
border-bottom-color: var(--color-main-red);
box-shadow: 0 2px 0 0 var(--color-main-red);
}
form input:not(:invalid):focus {
border-bottom-color: var(--color-main-green);
box-shadow: 0 2px 0 0 var(--color-main-green);
}
<form>
<input
type="text"
id="folderName"
placeholder="Your folder name"
spellcheck="false"
autocomplete="off"
required
minlength="3"
maxlength="50"
pattern=".{3,50}"
/>
<button type="submit" value="Create folder">Create folder</button>
</form>
For further details, here's the MDN link to the HTML pattern attribute: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/pattern
You can use minlength in input tag or you can regex pattern to check the number of character or even you can take the input and check the length of the character and then you can restrict based upon your requirement.
Smartest Way for maxlength
$("html").on("keydown keyup change", "input", function(){
var maxlength=$(this).attr('maxlength');
if(maxlength){
var value=$(this).val();
if(value.length<=maxlength){
$(this).attr('v',value);
}
else{
$(this).val($(this).attr('v'));
}
}
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" maxlength="10">
I've used the follow tag with numbers:
<input type="tel" class="form-control" name="Extension" id="Extension" required maxlength="4" minlength="4" placeholder="4 Digits" />
Add both a maximum and a minimum value. You can specify the range of allowed values:
<input type="number" min="1" max="999" />
I have three input fields I am attempting to enforce validity on. Currently, I have them all set as required, but removing the modifier with Javascript on submit if one of them is filled out; essentially, one must fill out at least one, but not none of these fields.
Here is an example of the fields:
jQuery(function ($) {
var $inputs = $('input[name=Input1],input[name=Input2], input[name=Input3]');
$inputs.on('input', function () {
// Set the required property of the other input to false if this input is not empty.
$inputs.not(this).prop('required', $(this).val().length > 0 && $(this).val() != 0)
});
});
jQuery(function ($) {
$("#Input1, #Input2").oninvalid = (function() {
$(this).setCustomValidity("Please enter a valid Input1, Input2, or Input3")
});
});
var Input3default = document.getElementById('Input3')
if (Input3.value.length == 0) Input3.value = "0";
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="container">
<div class="input-group mb-3">
<form action="" method="get" autocomplete="off">
<div class="row" style="text-align:justify; width: 100%; display:inline">
<div class="">
<label for="text3">Input1:</label>
<input type="text" id="Input1" name="Input1" required oninvalid="this.setCustomValidity('Please enter a valid Input1, Input2, or Input3')" />
</div>
<div class="">
<label for="text4">Input2:</label>
<input type="text" id="Input2" name="Input2" required oninvalid="this.setCustomValidity('Please enter a valid Input1, Input2, or Input3')"/>
</div>
<div class="">
<label for="text5">Input3:</label>
<input type="text" id="Input3" name="Input3" required placeholder="0" pattern="[0-9]*" onsubmit="Input3default" oninvalid="this.setCustomValidity('Please enter a valid Input3')"/>
</div>
</div>
<p>
<input type="submit" value=" Submit " />
</p>
</form>
</div>
</div>
This seems to work fine if I leave it default; I have Input1 and Input2 empty by default, and Input3 has a value of "0" by default. If I enter Input1 or Input2, my submission goes through just fine. However, the problems begin if I alter Input3.
Problem 1: Any time I enter Inputs 1 and 2 but leave 3 blank, it triggers invalidity; my Input3default never seems to trigger, and it is passed blank and caught by the oninvalid tag.
Problem 2: Along with that, if I do not specify an Input2 along with my Input1 while Input3 is blank, it triggers invalidity on Input2. Using Chrome Debugger, I can see that the Required tag is removed, but my OnInvalid pop-up still comes up no matter what is remedied.
Essentially, I am trying to solve the second problem: When I remove the required html tag from my input, after invalidating another input with a Javascript-enforced default, my inputs refuse to validate on the front end.
I appreciate any advice and conjecture as to why this may be the case, and believe that the two problems are connected.
EDIT: Upon adding an = to my original oninvalid JQuery function, I removed a JS error. It appears that my Input3 default function triggers on pageload, but not on submit; I added an onsubmit function to input3, but am still receiving oninvalid events for input2.
I was able to fix this issue on my own, using the OnInput event.
The setCustomValidity function, when triggered, does not allow a submission while a CustomValidity is set. In order to fix this, I edited my inputs as so:
<input type="text" id="Input1" name="Input1" required oninvalid="this.setCustomValidity('Please enter a valid Input1, Input2, or Input3')" oninput="this.setCustomValidity('')"/>
I still have a few kinks to iron out, but this fixed my main problem in that the validity of an input was not being reset.
I'll leave this answer unaccepted at first to allow others to pitch in.
This is my textbox that I have:
This is the code for it :
<!-- Preferred credit limit -->
<div class="signup-card-section">
<h2 class="accordion-header boldtext">Tell Us Your Preferred Credit Limit</h2>
<div class="column-control no-padding twelve colgrid">
<fieldset>
<div class="row">
<p class="text-red">(Choose one)</p>
<p>My Preferred Credit Limit<span class="text-red">*</span></p>
<br>
<input type="radio" name="prefcreditlimit" checked="checked" value="yesprefcreditlimit" id="yesprefcreditlimit">
<span class="radiotextdeco">S$</span> <input type="text" class="input numeric-only nodecimal width30" name="prefcreditlimitval" id="prefcreditlimit" min="100"> <span style="font-size:12px;"> (Must be in multiples of 00’ and a minimum of S$100)</span><br><br>
<input type="radio" name="prefcreditlimit" checked="checked" value="noprefcreditlimit"> <span class="radiotextdeco">I dont have a preferred credit limit and agree to any credit limit determined</span><br><br>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> Principal applicant and Suplementary applicant will be granted the preferred credit limit of any limit determined by the bank, whichever is lower.</p>
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>
</div>
Error message to appear if value key in is not in multiples of 00’ or minimum of S$100: “Your Preferred Credit Limit must be in multiple of 00’ and a minimum of S$100.
Since I set the min value to 100. There's an error message appear when user enters less 100. The problem is now, I'm not sure how to check for the validation of 00'
Any help would be appreciated.
Use <input type="number"> along with the min and step attributes:
<input type="number" name="prefcreditlimitval" min="100" step="100">
If the user enters a value lower than the min or something that isn't a multiple of step, the browser's validation will prevent the form from being submitted. In browsers that don't support validation, you can use a polyfill (like this one).
You can test out the validation (though SO doesn't allow forms to run):
input:invalid {
border-color: red;
}
Input multiples of 100<br><br>
<input type="number" name="test" min="100" step="100">
Input tag also has 'pattern' attribute, where you can specify Regex pattern to check input.
So something like
<input type="text" class="input numeric-only nodecimal width30" name="prefcreditlimitval" id="prefcreditlimit" min="100" pattern="\d+00$">
should work!
Some info about input's pattern attr
As mentioned in other answers, you may use min and step attributes to limit value of input field. But these attributes were introduced as a part of HTML 5 standards and it is not supported in all browsers yet.
A generic solution using jQuery/JS to check input value and give error message if it does not meet your requirements can be written as follows.
function validate() {
var value = $("#prefcreditlimit").val();
if (isNaN(value) || value < 100 || value % 100 != 0) {
alert("Please provide a valid input");
$("#prefcreditlimit").val("");
}
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<span class="radiotextdeco">S$</span>
<input type="text" class="input numeric-only nodecimal width30" name="prefcreditlimitval" id="prefcreditlimit" min="100" onblur="validate()"> <span style="font-size:12px;"> (Must be in multiples of 00’ and a minimum of S$100)</span>
You could add some validation in Javascript, checking whether the input is indeed a number, if so then check if it's also at least 100 and if so, check if the input is a multitude of 100. You can do it like this:
var val = parseInt($("#prefcreditlimit").val(), 10);
if (isNaN(val))
{
// ERROR; NOT A NUMBER
}
else if (val < 100)
{
// ERROR; VALUE IS LOWER THAN 100
}
else if (val % 100 !== 0)
{
// ERROR; VALUE IS NOT A MULTITUDE OF 100
}
It seems you want the value to be greater than 100 and a multiple of 100. Seeing as you have tagged the question with jQuery I have done a jQuery example for you.
I am listening for changes on the textfield using .change().
jQuery("#prefcreditlimit").change(function () { ... });
I am using jQuery(this).val(); or jQuery("#prefcreditlimit").val(); to get the current value of the textfield .val()
From your comments, I have updated to first check that the radio button is checked first using !jQuery("#yesprefcreditlimit").is(':checked') which says if the checkbox is not checked.
Then I use simple logic checks first checking if the value is a number isNaN(value) then if value < 100 is less than 100. Then if value % 100 > 0 if the modulus of the value is greater than 100.
There definitely a lot more you could go here, and a lot of different ways you could do this, this is just one way. For example you might not want the change part of this and instead do the validation on the submit of the form.
Note: In the stack snippet you need to click out of the textbox for the change event to be triggered.
jQuery(function () {
jQuery("#prefcreditlimit").change(function () {
var value = jQuery(this).val();
if(!jQuery("#yesprefcreditlimit").is(':checked')) {
jQuery("#warning").text("");
return;
}
if(isNaN(value)) {
jQuery("#warning").text("Value is not a number.");
return;
}
if(value < 100) {
jQuery("#warning").text("Value is less than 100");
return;
}
if(value % 100 > 0) {
jQuery("#warning").text("Value needs to be a multiple of 100");
return;
}
jQuery("#warning").text("Value: " + value + " is Okay!");
});
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p>My Preferred Credit Limit<span class="text-red">*</span></p>
<br>
<input type="radio" name="prefcreditlimit" checked="checked" value="yesprefcreditlimit" id="yesprefcreditlimit">
<span class="radiotextdeco">S$</span> <input type="text" name="prefcreditlimitval" id="prefcreditlimit" min="100"> <span style="font-size:12px;"> (Must be in multiples of 00’ and a minimum of S$100)</span><br><br>
<input type="radio" name="prefcreditlimit" checked="checked" value="noprefcreditlimit"> <span class="radiotextdeco">I dont have a preferred credit limit and agree to any credit limit determined</span><br><br>
<p id="warning"></p>
If you have no problem using input type number you can use, step attribute
step = "any" or positive floating-point number NEW specifies the value granularity of the element’s value.
If step is not explicitly included, the value of step defaults to 1, as if it were included with step="1" (or step="100" in the case of type="time"), even if the default value or min value is a float.
<input type="number" class="input numeric-only nodecimal width30" name="prefcreditlimitval" id="prefcreditlimit" min="100" step="100">
I am using angularJS, and I'm trying to get an error to pop up if the input value is not a number.
Number Value: <input type="number" ng-model="mydata.number" ng-change="checkNumber()" />
<p style="color:red" ng-show="numberError">
{{ numberError }}
</p>
And then inside $scope.checkNumber I check to see if it's NaN:
if(!$scope.mydata.number || isNaN($scope.mydata.number)) {
$scope.numberError = "This must be a number";
}
It appears that when I initially enter a string such as "fff" no error popups up, and we don't enter the checkNumber function, but if I enter "1fff" then it does enter the function and the error shows like it should.
If the input type is number and the initial character is not a number, does the ng-model not change?
What about using the Angular built-in validation, like this:
<form name="myForm">
Number Value:
<input type="number" ng-model="mydata.number" name="myNumber" />
<p style="color:red" ng-show="myForm.myNumber.$dirty && !myForm.myNumber.$valid">
{{ numberError }}
</p>
</form>