Textarea Fields do not enforce max text length

[martinconnelly]

If there is a text limit -- doesn't matter what the text limit is. At least for me...

[wilr]

It should set the 'maxlength' value in your html text box. Have you set your text field to take multiple rows then you can insert as many characters as you want since no maxlength for textarea.

[martinconnelly]

Gotcha. I had assumed I could set it to limit a large box to, say, 400
words. Will have to think of a workaround.

Thanks!

m

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:51 AM, Will Rossiter <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

It should set the 'maxlength' value in your html text box. Have you set
your text field to take multiple rows then you can insert as many
characters as you want since no maxlength for textarea.

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[wilr]

The module should make it clearer (or have javascript validation) to enforce maxlength in textareas. Will alter your title to make it clearer

[robbieaverill]

Closing, feel free to reopen if this is still an issue

[asecondwill]

This would be very helpful to have. Just a field in the field's settings - maxlength for textarea fields.

[dhensby]

Adding a max length to a textarea would require some JS. I think this is probably outside of the scope of this module and perhaps someone could create a "length limited text area editable field" which could include https://github.com/jonom/silverstripe-text-target-length