Måske sådan så:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html>
<head>
<title>Tomt dokument</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="roenving,
http://www.eksperten.dk/spm/505081"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
</style>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var lens = new Array();
var orglens = new Array();
function checkLength(elm){
spElm = document.getElementById('span'+elm.name);
if(!orglens[elm.name]){
orglens[elm.name] = +spElm.innerHTML;
lens[elm.name] = +spElm.innerHTML;
}
l = elm.value.length;
lens[elm.name] = l;
spElm.innerHTML = orglens[elm.name] - l;
if(l>orglens[elm.name]){
alert('Du kan kun indtaste ' + orglens[elm.name] + ' karaterer i ' + elm.name);
elm.value = elm.value.substring(0,orglens[elm.name]);
spElm.innerHTML = 0;
elm.focus();
return false;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="minForm" name="minForm">
<textarea name="Tarea1" id="Tarea1" cols="40" rows="1" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea1">10</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
<textarea name="Tarea2" id="Tarea2" cols="40" rows="1" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea2">20</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
<textarea name="Tarea3" id="Tarea3" cols="40" rows="1" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea3">30</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
<textarea name="Tarea4" id="Tarea4" cols="40" rows="1" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea4">40</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
<textarea name="Tarea5" id="Tarea5" cols="40" rows="2" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea5">50</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
<textarea name="Tarea6" id="Tarea6" cols="40" rows="2" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea6">60</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
<textarea name="Tarea7" id="Tarea7" cols="40" rows="2" onkeyup="return checkLength(this);"></textarea>
Du har <span id="spanTarea7">70</span> bogstaver tilbage ...
<br>
</form>
</body>
</html>