adding attribute to existing tag. How???

[ira romanenko]

Hello all!
Could you help me?
I need to add attribute maxlength to tag <h:inputTextarea>, but don't know how to do it.
Could you give me some advises?

[Tim Holloway]

You can't add attributes to tags, whether JSF or plain JSP tags. Instead, you'd have to subclass the tag, extend it, and declare a TLD for the extended tag.

However, what you're asking for is part of the standard property set for that tag, so you don't need any extensions to do that. Here's a working example:

                 <h:inputText id="category"
                              value="#{contracts.selected.category}"
                              size="30" maxlength="100"
                            required="false"/>

[ira romanenko]

Thank you, but I need inputTextarea, not inputText

[Tim Holloway]

Ooops. Sorry about my inability to see the obvious. But isn't that set as the product of rows= x cols= ?

If not, I suppose a validator is in order.