Limit text when entering text in category meta description

[14Steve14]

Title sort of says it all really.

We are using 1.9.0. and wish to limit the text that is entered into the product meta description box when creating a product. Google limits this to 160 characters so we would like to make sure that all our required keywords are used in the first 160. I am aware that if the text is longer Google will only show the first 160, or make up its own text.

Is there a simple way of limiting these characters when creating products.

I can see that in the admin - actions - catalog - infoboxes - edit_category.php there is the following coede spo ids this somewhere where a limit can be added or is it somewhere else.

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$category_seo_description_string .= (new Textarea("categories_seo_description[{$l['languages_id']}]", ['id' => "cSeoDescription-{$l['code']}", 'cols' => '80', 'rows' => '10']))->set_text($l['categories_seo_description'] ?? '');

If its is not possible then we can reduce the size of the visible input area so that it matches the number but I was sort of looking for the correct way of doing it.

[ecartz]

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$category_seo_description_string .= (new Textarea("categories_seo_description[{$l['languages_id']}]", ['id' => "cSeoDescription-{$l['code']}", 'cols' => '80', 'rows' => '5', 'maxlength' => '160']))->set_text($l['categories_seo_description'] ?? '');

I also reduced the number of rows. That's not strictly necessary but saves some space.

Note that it may be better to limit the length on submission than in the HTML.

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      'categories_seo_description' => substr(Text::prepare($_POST['categories_seo_description'][$l['id']], 0, 160)),

or even at display time.

[14Steve14]

@ecartz Many thanks for that. Seems to work like a charm. Hopefully will make our sites SEO better.