shansiddiqui94

shansiddiqui94

How do you increase Characters in a text box?

Hello,

I am working on a new application with Elixir, Dish_out. I have run into a few minor problems that I am trying to figure out.

  1. My text box for the summary only allows for a certain amount of characters. How can I increase the number of characters inside the text box and also the text box itself? Here is my attempt at this
schema "delish_foods" do
    field :date, :integer
    field :ingredients, :string
    field :summary, :string
    field :title, :string

    timestamps()
  end

   alter table(:delish_foods) do 
    modify :content, :text
   end
end
  1. is there a way to format the date input to add / or - to make it look cleaner rather than just numbers? perhaps a time/date library.

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f0rest8

f0rest8

  1. Some possible things to consider:
  • Do you have a validation that is restricting it? i.e. validate_length(:summary, max: 250)
  • Are you using something like the html helper textarea/3 from the docs for your input field?
  • If you share more of your code it would help people see what’s going on.
  1. There are libraries like Timex which have multiple format options. There’s also strftime/3 from Elixir’s Calendar module.

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kokolegorille

kokolegorille

No, but You should show your form code…

String is limited to 255 char, but text is not.

It’s also strange to store date as integer, there are date and datetime types of fields.

kokolegorille

kokolegorille

textarea, withouth dash in between :slight_smile:

This is a string field… limited to 255, use text instead.

f0rest8

f0rest8

In your schema update your summary to: field :summary, :text. You can see the supported mix phx.gen.schema types from docs.

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kokolegorille

kokolegorille

I use binary, instead ot string and text…

It is also working :slight_smile:

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