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Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
I’ve noticed the widening of some of the content panels, which is great and I hope they all go that way. In a similar vein, would it be possible to widen the text edit boxes in the Write panel (middle column) so that more text is in view in the edit boxes? The left and right columns could remain the same width. I think this would be a tremendous help to drafting content there without the aid of an external editor (which provides similar comfort, among other things).
Just a thought.
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
in the dev version I just edited textpattern.css as follows (among a few other things) and you have it elastic.
<pre><code>
table#edit {
margin: 0 10px;
width:98%
}
input#title {
width:80%;
}
textarea#body,
textarea#excerpt,
textarea#css,
textarea#form,
textarea#html {
width:97%;
}
</code></pre>
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
I’m glad you point that out, Jakob, because I rarely think to go into the admin CSS (and it’s a good idea in this case). For me it’s not a problem to edit my own, but it could be nice to change the default for those Txp users less CSS inclined (they exist).
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
Did the same edits as jakob, except I set mines to a width in px, suitable for my window width and my font-sizes. I use the same width for all textareas, I get a consistent width of all panes that way.
BTW, I agree that the default width for the textareas in the content panes is on the narrow side, esp for those who use larger font-sizes.
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
How does Wordpress let you resize the textareas, is it a feature of tinyMCE?
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#6 2006-09-16 03:37:18
- Mary
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
…is it a feature of tinyMCE?
Yes.
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#7 2006-09-16 21:06:53
- NyteOwl
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
I have been using the Resizeable Textarea extension for Firefox someone recommended here in a thread a few months ago. Works great except when the write page reloads after a save the textareas return to normal size.
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Re: Wider text boxes in the Write panel?
i modified the textpattern.css to suit editing pages, forms and styles on my small laptop screen 1024 × 768. see the changed entries as displayed below.
code size in forms
<code>
code, .code {
font: 0.9em Monaco, “Courier New”, monospace;
}
</code>
form window sizes page and css, added textarea#form
<code>
textarea#html {
margin-top: 6px;
width: 600px;
height: 440px;
}
</code>
<code>
textarea#css {
width: 600px;
height: 460px;
}
</code>
<code>
/* new entry */
textarea#form {
width: 500px;
height: 330px;
}
</code>
idea of this: not having to scroll other than in form itself, save button below remains visible without page scrolling.
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