Can someone please help? How do I make these two changes?

[Fifth Dimension]

What I would like to do is expand the size of the "enter thread title" box as well as the size of the message input area when you go to "Post New Thread." The thread title box I'd like to expand to include about 75 characters, and the message area, I would like to stretch to the size of the browser's full width. A similar change is requested in the Private Message menus as well.

Interestingly enough, I know how to do this in Vb 4, but not in Vb 3. Argh...

If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it. This remains the last change to templates that I need to make so would be really nice to wrap up this part of making changes to my forum.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. I am attaching screenshots so you can see quickly to what I'm referring.

[kh99]

For the title, the size of that field is coded in the newthread template (search for size="40"). The max chars in that field is set by the option for max thread title length in vBulletin Options.

For the message area, if you go to the Style Manager and pick "style vars" from the drop-down, there's one called "Message Area Width" that sets the width, but it does it for all of them and not just the new thread box, and you can specify a pixel width but I don't know how you'd do "the entire width of the browser". The actual box is in more than one template - two of them are named "editor_toolbar_on" and "editor_toolbar_off", so maybe you can change the html/css there to get what you want (again you'd be changing all message boxes).

Hope this helps.