increasing the size of the Txp:comment message input field

pketh · 2005-10-28 17:39:07

I’ve already search the forums, and textbook for the answer to what should be a simple question but I have yet to find it :(

ok, anyways, if you’ll look at any permalink on my site you’ll notice that the message input form box in the comment area is kinda small for long messages. I was just wondering how to increase it’s size.

thanks :)
(oh btw, I’m running the latest textpattern)

ramanan · 2005-10-28 18:26:10

I actually don’t remember how I figured this out — I might have been looking through the code. Anyway, you need to change your <txp:comments_form /> tag so it includes two extra attributes, msgrows and msgcols. For example, at my site I display the comment form as follows: <txp:comments_form msgrows="15" msgcols="35" />. Hope that helps.

(Also, this is really a pretty obtuse way to do things. One would expect you would add attributes to the <txp:comment_message_input /> tag.)

Last edited by ramanan (2005-10-28 18:27:51)

pketh · 2005-10-28 18:29:27

thanks alot ramanan,

agreed. It should be a lot easier

ramanan · 2005-10-28 18:40:06

I think the problem is that <txp:comments_form /> is a real tag, where as the tags you actually place in your comment form are just place holders.

pketh · 2005-10-28 19:27:20

hmm, I’m having problems actually implementing it in my comments_form form. So I go into that form and I don’t know where to add the msgrows attribute.

Do I change the name of the form to txp:comments_form msgrows=“15” msgcols=“35” or something?
At first I thought u meant I could replace the txp:comment_message_input tag with that one – which didn’t work :(

thanks

thebombsite · 2005-10-28 19:42:02

You could do it with plain old CSS:- <code>textarea.txpCommentInputMessage {height: 200px;width: 275px;}</code>

Last edited by thebombsite (2005-10-28 19:42:44)

ramanan · 2005-10-28 19:44:58

No, you have to add the attributes to the <txp:comments_form /> tag. Those other tags that are actually in your comment form template are just place holders really. So, as I said above, for my site, I use <txp:comments_form msgrows="15" msgcols="35" />. I think that tag should reside in the comments_display form.

pketh · 2005-10-28 20:48:09

Ooooh, I got it working now.
Two great suggestions/methods – thanks a lot to you both!

ramanan · 2005-10-28 22:45:38

You learn something new everyday. I didn’t know you could stretch out boxes with CSS.

pketh · 2005-10-28 22:51:50

ya me neither, even though I ended up using ur technique (didn’t feel like opening cssedit)
I’ll probably put that to good use far in the future

thanks thebombsite!

thebombsite · 2005-10-28 23:05:04

No problem. As far as the textarea is concerned it’s only been possible since they removed the “hard-coding” otherwise you had to go into comments.php and edit the included dimensions.

pketh · 2005-10-28 23:06:21

but this works with all form fields (name, url, custom ones too)?

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#1 2005-10-28 17:39:07

increasing the size of the Txp:comment message input field

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