Category: Zone BBS Q&A
Whenever I write quicknotes or reply to board posts, my messages are always fragmented. How do I increase the size of the box so that jaws reads the entire message rather than just bits of the sentense and bits of words in the sentense?
Thanks,
Nem
Maximizing the window may help. I tend to type posts in Notepad and then paste them.
thanks for that. I will give it a shot.
As mentioned before, maximizing does help. Also, I'm not sure why this works, but at times if it's not reading what you've written in the edit field, sometimes doing a select all (ctrl+a) then going to what you were trying to read / write, will make tit behave itself, (jaws at least.) Hope that helps.
for some reason if you take it out of forms mode and read it. it works then.
I usually write board posts in MS word myself. Especially if they're long-winded, so that I can spellcheck them and make them look halfway decent.
I've noticed that the edit field for qn's behaves differently than the one for board posts. Is it a different type?
I think qn is text and boards is textarea, but I forget.
QN and Board Posts are both <textarea>.
what's the maximum length of a qn? I'm always paranoid that a qn may be too long or something.
500 characters I think
No, Cala, the maxLength of a QN is set at 1000 characters. I can prove this:
<textarea maxLength="1000" onkeypress="return taLimit()" accesskey="q" name="q" id="note" rows=2 cols=60></textarea>
This is enforced like this:
<script>
function taLimit(){
var taObj=event.srcElement;
if taObj.value.length==taObj.maxLength*1) return false;
}
</script>
This script verifies whether there are indeed 1000 chars in the box. If so, you can't type any more or your QN will be truncated.