My idea is to realize a hack that says how many characters a post contains while you are writing it down, in other words a counter that says something like this:

Yuo can still use: xxx characters in you post!


Do you think this can be done? What variables are involved in this process? I mean where the total number of characters and the actual number of characters are stored?


Thank you!

Samantha

Well, you need to do it in JS and it's pretty easy, you just need to check the length of the string inside the textbox. Then compare it with a variable from vB which you put in the JS code in the template. Then it should work dynamically. Seeing as JS isn't my expertise all I can tell you is what you need to do as I don't know the function names though they could be the same. You'll have to give me a few minutes.

First of all thank you so much for your time, you are always so kind to me :embarrass
Just take all the time you need I have no hurry at all ;)


Regards
Samantha

right well the solution I came up with:

Go into showthread_quickreply and find: directly above add:
then find: Note: there should be 2 instances. And replace with: Now you have it working, there is one more thing you must add. You can put that anywhere in the template.

NOTE: there is a little bug in vB which for some reason is adding a space in "this.value" there should be no space.

actually I can't find a single place where this will work where as it works fine on it's own. Something in vB is totally messing this up.

Infact it doesn't work Thank you anyway!

No, it does work just not with vB. Get vb's text area and the code I gave you and put them together. It works perfectly :S

Thanks rogersnm will give this a try ;)