You can use juery to change them
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {$
('#student_last_name').attr('maxlength','30'); });
</script>
On Nov 8, 1:07 am, billf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe that you can set the attributes on an <input type="text"...>
> but only if you create it specifically as in:
>
> INPUT(_type='text',_name='student_last_name',_value='Smith',_size='20',_maxlength='30')
>
> ...as all attributes prefixed '_' are used to create html tag
> attributes.
>
> At the moment, I don't believe that you can just specify values for
> size and maxlength anywhere and they will be automatically included
> when the FORM is created. This re-raises the question of "if you
> could where would you put it?" as is it view information or model
> information :-)
>
> On Nov 7, 5:26 pm, "Wes James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:17 AM, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > requires=IS_LENGTH(256)
>
> > > this is automatic for SQLFORMs if a SQLField(....,length=256)
>
> > > On Nov 7, 11:08 am, "Wes James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> How do you set on a per field basis the maxlength - i.e., the total
> > >> text someone can type in a form input field. Can this be done in
> > >> db.py?
>
> > >> -wj
>
> > there should be maxlenth='sqlfield.length' like process in the in the
> > html input field creation for the maxlength to work right on web
> > pages.
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