HTML5 textarea character limit attribute

Question

Is there an HTML5 attribute to set the maximum amount of characters in a textarea or other form?
I want a yes/no answer not some other method using javascript.

Answer 1

Yup, maxlength works still: http://jsfiddle.net/xhqsB/1/ (demo has textarea and input type of text)

Beware that it is fairly easy for the client to bypass these restrictions, so if you are submitting data to a form, have the server-side script check the length of the submitted data.

Answer 2

see: textarea – text input area - HTML5

the maxlength attribute is new to HTML5 for <textarea> but has been available for <input type="text" /> for a while

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