Fixed #22206 -- Passed models.TextField.max_length to forms.CharField.maxlength

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
index 4e02c66ca0..b3523334c0 100644
--- a/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/models/fields.txt
@@ -968,6 +968,13 @@ databases supported by Django.
 A large text field. The default form widget for this field is a
 :class:`~django.forms.Textarea`.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.7
+
+    If you specify a ``max_length`` attribute, it will be reflected in the
+    :class:`~django.forms.Textarea` widget of the auto-generated form field.
+    However it is not enforced at the model or database level. Use a
+    :class:`CharField` for that.
+
 .. admonition:: MySQL users
 
     If you are using this field with MySQLdb 1.2.1p2 and the ``utf8_bin``