Now I don't think this is possible with not being able to set a maxlength to the textarea but I figured why not ask. Basically the idea is to have a textfield because when the status is in a sidebar as a textfield it's not very user friendly. So I figured I''d alter the form as a textarea... but of coarse I ran into the maxlength problem. I know you can make a javascript workaround but was looking for something a little more global.

Anyways, let me know if you have any ideas.

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icecreamyou’s picture

icecreamyou commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

You can set the length of the textfield at admin/settings/facebook_status.

walker2238’s picture

walker2238 commented

Yes I know. But I'd like to change the textfield to a textarea. I want the multi line feature because of the limited space. But the problem is there is no maxlength for a textarea. Once I over ride the form to change it to a textarea setting the length of the textfield no longer applies.

icecreamyou’s picture

icecreamyou commented

I'm not changing it in the module but if you want to manually override it you just need to set #cols.

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walker2238 commented

Yeah I did all that but to play around with it. The reason I ask was because If the user types over the allowed characters it won't save to the db. Anyways I appreciate your quick responses. This was more of a inquiry than a request anyways... cheers...