{{ Form::text('name', null, array('placeholder' => '','maxlength' => 10 )) }}
Works with the Chrome Version 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit)
You can also check in validation as follow. For more details, you can take a look in validation
$validator = Validator::make( array('name' => 'name'), array('name' => 'required|max:5'));