The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Sometimes the max length is a warning, but the editor can decide to go over by a few (or man) characters. This is not an option, because maxlength uses the maxlength attribute, which means something in HTML5. There's no easy alter or aything to make this work with maxlength, so I've had to copy a bulk of the code a few times, which is annoying.
If this is a per-field option (default disabled), it can use another attribute, like data-maxlength and check that to show a warning instead of an error.
Related issue #651506: Warning rather than Truncate is similar, but 5 years old.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | maxlength-bpass_is_warning-2507357-4.patch | 6.82 KB | jenlampton |
Comments
Comment #1
amazingrandoI would like to second this feature request.
I'd love to see a warning character limit and a maxlength.
Comment #2
rudiedirkx commentedMaxlength now has a "bypass maxlength" permission, which is related, but not good. Everyone with this permission (so always user 1) won't even see the maxlength widget part. No counting, no warning. Can't disable it. Maybe the permission could do what this issue is about: bypass = don't stop, only warn.
Comment #3
rudiedirkx commentedComment #4
jenlamptonThe attached patch changes the behavior of the `bypass maxlength` permission. Instead of hiding the information, it changes the error into a warning, but allows form submission to proceed as usual.
Comment #5
cedeweyWe are putting a feature freeze on the Drupal 7 version of the module, so I'm marking this Closed, won't fix. Thank you everyone for working on this issue. If you do want to maintain the Drupal 7 version, do reach out. We'd be happy to bring you on board as a maintainer.