text_field "maxsize" not working?

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Is this something I'm doing wrong, or is there a bug (or something else)? The agile book and the ROR API seems to indicate this should work.

rhtml:     <td><%= text_field('state', 'abbreviation', :size => 2, :maxsize => 2) %></td>

Rendered HTML:     <td><input id="state_abbreviation" maxsize="2" name="state[abbreviation]" size="2" type="text" /></td>

I've tried:

:size => 2, :maxsize => 2 {:size => 2, :maxsize => 2} "size" => 2, "maxsize" => 2 {"size" => 2, "maxsize" => 2}

They all render the same HTML.

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Hey,

Change your :maxsize to :maxlength and it should work properly.

3

osh wrote:

Hey,

Change your :maxsize to :maxlength and it should work properly.

Perfect, thanks. Where did you find that?

4

Didn't really find it anywhere. Just from knowing that a regular HTML rendered input uses the maxlength property and not maxsize.Good luck to you...