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minlength attribute

Category

User input

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 40)

Intent stage

None

Summary

minlength attribute declares a lower bound on the number of characters a user can input.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#attr-fe-minlength
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Input#attr-minlength https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea#attr-minlength

Samples: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/report-validity

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