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[Peter Farmer <address@concealed>]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 9:11 am, Adam Bernstein wrote:
> > The only HTML input size that we set is the length of the visible part
> > of inputs. We don't define the max length, therefore the defaults
> > should apply. If you want to change the maximum length of input fields
> > you should try setting the "maxlength" attribute to a bigger value. I
> > guess it could be done in the CSS but I'm not an expert...
>
> I can certainly try setting that attribute on the input field, but where
> do I do that?  I'm totally confused by the code that generates those list
> settings pages, and would appreciate a pointer.
>
>      ab

You cant set maxlength in CSS - its an html form element attribute not a 
display style. You'll have to modify the tt2 template edit_list_request.tt2

heres the diff for 5.2.0 

152c152
<                                             <input type="text" 
name="single_param.[% p.name %].[% o_INDEX %].[% key.name %]" 
id="single_param.[% p.name %].[% o_INDEX %].[% key.name %]" value="[% 
key.value %]" size="[% key.length %]" />
---
>                                             <input [% key.name == 
'sql_query' ? 'maxlength="1200"' : '' %] type="text" name="single_param.[% 
p.name %].[% o_INDEX %].[% key.name %]" id="single_param.[% p.name %].[% 
o_INDEX %].[% key.name %]" value="[% key.value %]" size="[% key.length 
%]" />


i.e. add
[% key.name == 'sql_query' ? 'maxlength="1200"' : '' %]
to the input attributes on line 152

This is a bit hackish, but I dont think there's any other way to do it .
I doubt that the maxlength setting is causing your problem though ... have 
you looked in the expl/listname/config file to see what has been stored by 
the gui interface ?

Regards,
Peter Farmer