Maximum Characters for Text Box Attribute

[MaryK]

If I set a text attribute to have a 4 digit character maximum, say 1500, Internet Explorer will display as 1500 in the little max box above the input box, but Firefox displays as 150, which correctly reflects the length generated in the HTML:
<input disabled="disabled" type="text" name="remainingtxt_31" size="3" maxlength="3" value="1500" /> maximum characters allowed<br /><textarea class="attribsTextarea" name="id[txt_31]" rows="3" cols="32" onkeydown="characterCount(this.form['id[txt_31]'],this.form.remainingtxt_31,1500);" onkeyup="characterCount(this.form['id[txt_31]'],this.form.remainingtxt_31,1500);" id="attrib-31-0" ></textarea>

[MaryK]

This is not really a bug, but a hard coded value that just behaves differently in different browsers. I worked around it by changing the hard coded limit of 3 to 4 in the two areas of the code of modules/attributes.php, and placing it in my template folder to override.

// use text area or input box based on setting of products_options_rows in the products_options table
if ( $products_options_names->fields['products_options_rows'] > 1) {
$tmp_html = ' <input disabled="disabled" type="text" name="remaining' . TEXT_PREFIX . $products_options_names->fields['products_options_id'] . '" size="4" maxlength="4" in two areas of attributes.php

I guess wishlist would be to have the field be dynamic, computed from the length of the textfield as set in the attribute, since the system seems to handle larege amounts of text very well (cross fingers).
Thanks for a great ZenCart version