Large taxonomy term names in several lines [#795242]

Drupal 6 now sets the maxlength of taxonomy tags fields to 1024 characters on node create and edit forms. In the hs_taxonomy.module on line 272, maxlength is set to be 255 for those fields, essentially shrinking the accepted amount of characters.

This is a problem for 2 reasons. First, if you already had taxonomies in place when you installed hierarchical select, it prevents you from saving any content with tags of more than 255 characters. Second, just generally, users should be able to use the standard taxonomy length of core.

If you really wanted to improve, you could even look into providing an admin setting in which you could make a custom tag length. But clearly the default must be changed.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#3	large_term_name_breaks_page_display.PNG	28.54 KB	avaldivia

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Comment #1

wim leers

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commented 8 September 2010 at 22:59

Version:	6.x-3.x-dev	» 6.x-3.5
Priority:	Critical	» Minor
Status:	Active	» Needs work

I had no idea there was this insane 1024 character limit. I think it might have changed with Taxonomy's upgrade path to Drupal 6. Most likely I *did* look at the DB schema details in D5, but didn't look at the upgrade path. Of course, I might have overlooked it in D5 as well. But terms of 1024 characters in length seem … absolutely insane, to be honest. Which is why I don't see the need to fix this myself.

Patch welcome :)

Comment #2

wim leers

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commented 3 October 2010 at 21:27

No patch?

Comment #3

avaldivia commented 7 October 2010 at 11:42

Title:	Hierarchical Select sets the maxlength of taxonomy tags much lower than drupal core, causing many issues on some sites	» Large taxonomy term names in several lines
Component:	Code - Taxonomy	» Miscellaneous
Category:	bug	» feature
Priority:	Minor	» Critical
Status:	Needs work	» Needs review

Status	File	Size
new	large_term_name_breaks_page_display.PNG	28.54 KB

For theming issues... is it possible to display the taxonomy tags in more than one line when required?

The basic (theming)problem is that a "large" term name may break page display, so it would be nice to present a large term name in more than one line if needed.

Is it possible to solve this display problem with a simple code modification? In this case, where should this modification has to be done?

Comment #4

wim leers

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commented 7 October 2010 at 12:16

What you're asking, is not supported by HTML.

Comment #5

wim leers

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commented 7 October 2010 at 14:56

Status:

Needs review

» Active

Comment #6

drupalina commented 14 October 2010 at 02:48

Version:

6.x-3.5

» 6.x-3.6

Hi,
I've ran into the same problem: if I have a free-tagging form on the same node-form where HS_taxonomy is present, then it won't allow me to enter more tags than a 255 charachters combined.

On line 278 I changed '#maxlength' => 255, to '#maxlength' => 1024, and the problem with tags went away.
(there are many reasons why people may choose to enter many-many tags so in total it would be more than 255: think about when people tag themselves with their interests and activities or think about image sites where people enter multiple tags instead of descriptions) -- So , IMHO, if Drupal core has it at 1024, then HS_taxonomy, should too.