Meta description allows too many characters

[Ctucker9233]

I'm noticing that my magento setup is allowing any number of characters in the meta description field. It used to automatically cut off the description if I exceeded the maximum amount of characters while typing. Now, it allows any amount and only cuts it off after saving the product.

Preconditions

Magento 2.1.0
PHP 5.6.22
Upgraded From Magento 2.0.7

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new product (type of product doesn't seem to matter)
2. Fill in meta description.
3. Save

Expected result

1. Meta description automatically cuts off the characters if character limit is exceeded before save.

Actual result

1. Meta description allows the number of characters to exceed the limit and only cuts off the extra characters on save. See screenshots.

Pre-save

post-save

[sevos1984]

This is a known issue MAGETWO-3254. Thanks for posting

[Ctucker9233]

@sevos1984 Wow! Judging by the magetwo number it's a pretty old known issue. Are we close to a fix?

[sevos1984]

Yep, old one, but it has low priority. Not sure it will be fixed soon.

[Ctucker9233]

@sevos1984 Man, too bad. It creates a lot of extra work having to go in, tweak the meta description, save, then go back and check. Then repeat as necessary.

[maderlock]

It's an easy fix - just add maxlength="255" (or whatever the maximum is) to the textarea. So it's odd that this has not been fixed as low hanging fruit.

[Ctucker9233]

@maderlock what file and line does this code go in?

[magento-engcom-team]

@Ctucker9233, thank you for your report.
We've created internal ticket(s) MAGETWO-3254 to track progress on the issue.