Question

I am using Richfaces and I am trying to make an <textArea> with maxlength atrribute set but JSF seems not to pass the maxlength attribute from h:inputTextArea. Any ideas why this is happening?

<h:inputTextarea maxlength="100" cols="20" rows="10" value="#{bean.description}" id="description" />

Answer 1

maxlength doesn’t exists on h:inputTextarea (see doc).

To add a validator message, try

<h:inputTextarea >
  <f:validateLength maximum="100"></f:validateLength>
</h:inputTextarea>