Need your help: "fuction not defined" problem

Hello everybody! I have a problem, in IE my code works properly, but Firefox writes "Error: guardMaxLength is not defined" the code is following:

checklength.js

function guardMaxLength(ta,event)
{  
    maxlength=parseInt(ta.maxlength,10);
    if(ta.value.length>=maxlength)
    {   
       return false
    }
    ta.value=value;
}

Code (markup):

<script type="text\JavaScript" src="checkLength.js">

</script>
<textarea maxlength="10" onkeypress="return guardMaxLength(this, event)" >
Thanks a lot!

HTML:

 

i remember something about 'event' being an IE only property

 

Mozilla is very fussy about the type attribute. It should be text/javascript not text\Javascript.

 

Thanks a lot! It's really working