Is there a way to pass parameter for textarea-rows from database to html

Question

If have a textfield defined as Field('title', 'text', label = T('Please enter something:')). It is rendered as a textarea.

Is it possible to pass some custom-parameters for this field like rows="5"in <textarea rows="5" name="title" .... ></textarea>

I mean the easy way, without writing a custom widget.

Answer 1

Field('title', 'text', label=T('Please enter something:'),
      widget=lambda f, v: SQLFORM.widgets.text.widget(f, v, _rows=5))

For more details, see the relevant section in the documentation.

Answer 2

There is a similar answer here: Custom CSS Classes for widgets

This answer also applies to my question: instead if passing ['_class] = "bla" just pass ['_rows'] = "x"