> > how do i shut off or disable the 3rd column of comments under > crud.update? >
Are you saying your field definitions include comments, but you just don't want them displayed on the crud.update form? I don't think there's a crud setting for that (SQLFORM takes a 'comments' argument that can be set to False, but crud does not). I suppose you could use CSS to hide them (all comment elements have CSS class "w2p_fc"). Other options: # Temporarily remove all field comments before creating form for field in db.yourtable: field.comment = '' or # Remove comments from the form after it is generated form = crud.update(...) for comment in form.elements('.w2p_fc'): comment[0] = '' > also, how can i change the number of columns and rows of a textarea > for a text blob field? basically i wan to make it bigger? > I think you can just use the CSS "width" attribute of the textarea to make it wider. You can also do: # Affects all forms db.define_table('yourtable', Field('textinput', 'text', widget=lambda f, v: SQLFORM.widgets.text.widget(f, v, _cols=80, _rows=20))) or # Affects only this form form.element('textarea').update(_cols=80, _rows=20) Anthony