how to verify character count of text field?

[Rohit]

I want to check the number of characters I can insert in a text field, & was thinking of using 'for loop' but it would not help as selenium tries to insert more than required character the field will not accept but test goes on without any failure, so is there a way to get character count of the text field?

[softwaretestingforum]

I guess you can check "maxlength" attribute for input element.
one example here - http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_maxlength.asp

Is this what you are looking for?