Is there a minlength validation attribute in HTML5?

Question

It seems the minlength attribute for an field doesn\'t work.

Is there any other attribute in HTML5 with the help of which I

Answer 1

minlength attribute is now widely supported in most of the browsers.

But, as with other HTML5 features, IE11 is missing from this panorama. So, if you have a wide IE11 user base, consider using the pattern HTML5 attribute that is supported almost across the board in most browsers (including IE11).

To have a nice and uniform implementation and maybe extensible or dynamic (based on the framework that generate your HTML), I would vote for the pattern attribute:

There is still a small usability catch when using pattern. The user will see a non-intuitive (very generic) error/warning message when using pattern. See this jsfiddle or below:

In each form type 1 character and press submit


  Input with minlength: 
  




  Input with patern: 
  

For example, in Chrome (but similar in most browsers), you will get the following error messages:

Please lengthen this text to 2 characters or more (you are currently using 1 character)

by using minlength and

Please match the format requested

by using pattern.