however, there is still the issue of long titles in the menu being truncated. however in , it was said that

T&L reviewed this and after some discussion, we decided that staying with the one-line, truncated titles is preferable. Truncating the titles keeps the spacing consistent in the left menu, and it also discourages users from creating long titles, which can make the page look text-heavy and cluttered.

so the patch above could be applied without doing anything with the menu titles

Here’s the patch we’ll be using (in Sakai 22)

I figured out why there is a 20 character limit on titles. If the title is too long, the menu will truncate it

In our custom install, we had modified the code that truncates the title when the menu is expanded. I discovered this while researching a separate bug where our modification was breaking the collapsed menu view of the title.

If it’s decided that titles should be 90 (or 99) characters long, the expanded vs collapsed view of the menu will also need to be updated to allow for long titles, where I think that can be fixed by changing the titles back to <span>, which was changed to <div> in 20+

see also SAK-46757

Right, this is database limited by 99. I’d agree it should be increased to match the value in the database. (Or at least increased)

It would make sense that at 100 characters there’d be an error inserting it but it can go up to that.

I also don’t know why 99 was chosen but these were from the very early days. It looks like 20 was chosen from early on back on too. Though I don’t know why it that value was initially picked there in 2011.

I’d personally vote to increase this as well, at least to match the database length, without increasing that field size. But sounds like this is configured in a few places and it was inconsistent across tools.