html - Large text in TextArea freezes computer

Question

When I try to set the value of a textarea with a large text (for example a string length of 600000), the browser (Firefox 3.5.3) freezes.

The text is in 1 line so text wrapping needs to happen by the textarea itself. I think this causes the problem.

Does anyone know a fix for this problem?

Answer 1

Disable the spell checker (in Firefox 7.0 uncheck the 'Check my spelling as I type' option in the Preferences window).

You can also add the spellcheck="false" attribute to the textarea in HTML.