Is there any way to set a maximum number of characters that can be entered into a text field, (this is to stop people causing errors when they try to enter more characters than the DB field can handle)

Thanks in advance Shaun C.., (newbie Xtreme)

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&lt;INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="box1" MAXLENGTH="5"&gt;
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