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I would really like to limit the title length on products in Magento.

What I've tried is adding 'maxlength' => 65 somewhere in \app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\, without success.

Does someone know how to add this feature? In HTML it will just be adding length="65" maxlength="65".

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Slightly off-topic: Better off truncating the title to 12 words, rather than 65 Chars... – Mike Hudson Jun 28 '12 at 1:29
Use the developer block hinting to ensure THAT block is actually making the output you see on front end... or the block that dictates the title's input. – Chris K Jun 28 '12 at 7:25
@MikeHudson True, but HTML doesn't support maxlenght="so many words". – cobra91 Jun 28 '12 at 14:20
@ChrisK In the front-end I'd like to show the same as in the back-end. Truncating isn't an option for me. – cobra91 Jun 28 '12 at 14:21

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After almost 10 hours of searching I gave the up the "best" way, and choose for the roundabout.

Simply add 

document.getElementById("name").setAttribute("maxlength", "65");
document.getElementById("name").setAttribute("length", "65");

to app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/catalog/wysiwyg/js.phtml

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Original question should be more like "where do forms come from". The code around the form for new products is in app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/catalog/product/edit.phtml on line 52: <?php echo $this->getBlockHtml('formkey')?>. Trying to find what actually makes this form's HTML is quite a mystery to me. – Chris K Jun 28 '12 at 16:59
Stumped, I asked this question on Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/11249858/… – Chris K Jun 28 '12 at 17:27
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As a result from that SO question. One repeating pattern in form creation is $fieldset->addField, so that presented itself as a key way to grep in files. 

user@magento:~/www/app$ grep -rin "addField.*text" * | grep -i product
code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Product/Edit/Tab/Super/Config/Simple.php:140:        $fieldset->addField('simple_product_inventory_qty', 'text', array(

There were about a dozen results which were quickly narrowed down (we're not caring about giftcard or Attribute sets). I'm not 100% sure THIS file is the answer but it seems that some logic could be added to catch whether or not the input's name=="Name" and then a maxlength could then be added in.

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