Comments on: Selecting input-fields with maxlength via jQuery

By: Tgr

Tgr — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:35:57 +0000

This is fixed in jQuery 1.6.

By: guandalino

guandalino — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:12:26 +0000

Hey, thanks for this blog post… I had the same issue and found great help here. Note that IE6 also gives 2147483647 as implicit maxlength value, so if you want to update the table you are welcome ;-) Best regards and thanks again.

By: Christoph Schüßler

Christoph Schüßler — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:05:03 +0000

@Hari: That’s exactly the problem I described above – your code doesn’t work. Please re-read… ;-)

By: Hari

Hari — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:09:26 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better to test for existence of maxlength attribute?

$(“input[maxlength]“) // does not include input w/o maxlenght

$(“input”)[0].hasAttribute(“maxlength”) // test on DOM element

By: Bobbyze

Bobbyze — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:26:51 +0000

Thank for your Blog …………

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bobbyze

By: Christoph Schüßler

Christoph Schüßler — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:50:45 +0000

I wouldn’t exactly call it the “best” option insofar as it adds unnecessary class names to the source. The beauty of jQuery’s selector engine is that it allows to select elements in very different ways, and selecting by attribute (which is part of CSS 3 but very badly supported as of now) is an especially useful feature. I would rather call it the best option, but as my article shows, it’s just not the easiest, an with regards to future browser generations, maybe not the safest. But, although I really don’t like to make predictions here, I would guess that different browser vendors will stick to their own quirks in this matter…

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:24:03 +0000

Because we cannot predict how future or new browser versions will handle these implicit values I guess the best option is to add class=’maxlength’ to each input and/or textarea field you would like to access. You agree?

By: Christoph Schüßler

Christoph Schüßler — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:14:44 +0000

I just ran the same test in different browser… moep.

By: Joe McCann

Joe McCann — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:37:30 +0000

Wow, very impressive. While just working with a ton of forms on my latest app, I’m glad I never had to select all by maxlength!

Also, how did you determine the other numbers in the other browsers? What test/code did you run?