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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/models/fields.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/releases/1.7.txt | 4 |
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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`` diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt index 441a39616a..096415c5b8 100644 --- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt +++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt @@ -488,6 +488,10 @@ Forms Each radio button or checkbox includes an ``id_for_label`` attribute to output the element's ID. +* The ``<textarea>`` tags rendered by :class:`~django.forms.Textarea` now + include a ``maxlength`` attribute if the :class:`~django.db.models.TextField` + model field has a ``max_length``. + * :attr:`Field.choices<django.db.models.Field.choices>` now allows you to customize the "empty choice" label by including a tuple with an empty string or ``None`` for the key and the custom label as the value. The default blank |