Django doesn't respect overriding the maxlength widget attribute for CharFields in ModelForm.

[Arsenal591]

I have the following field in model:

short_description = models.CharField(max_length=205)

and the widget in ModelForm:

'short_description': forms.Textarea(attrs={'rows': '3', 'minlength': 250,'maxlength': 250})

The issue:

In HTML, input, Django adds correctly minlength value, but for the maxlength value he get the value from the model field and not the one specified in the widget.

<textarea name="short_description" cols="40" rows="3"  minlength="250" maxlength="205" required="" id="id_short_description"></textarea>

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for this report, however this is a documented and expected behavior (see ​Field types and ​Overriding the default fields):

... Similarly, fields defined declaratively do not draw their attributes like max_length or required from the corresponding model. If you want to maintain the behavior specified in the model, you must set the relevant arguments explicitly when declaring the form field.