Stretch / resizable message area?

[jlaborde]

I would like the message area used for new replies, post edits, etc to either stretch with the browser or be a resizable textarea like the template editor's textarea.

At first I tried the obvious of setting 'Message Area Width' to a percentile and editing out the 'px' suffix in the editor_toolbar_on template, but that actually shrunk the area! I figured it had to be tied to a div, table, etc, but even adding "width=100%" to all areas I thought could be at play here, it did no good.

So then I moved on to a resizable textarea with the little resizable corner in the bottom right (no, the resize buttons are not sufficent). I compared the source of the textarea item from the control panel to the textarea in the template, matched them up, and... nothing.

Anyone know how to make one / both of these modifications? My 'search-fu' has not returned any results thus far.

[Dragonsys]

That area is already resizable. Check the bottom right corner, you can click and drag to resize it.

[jlaborde]

I'm afraid not for our boards:



That's the bottom right corner of the message area and the smilie box on the right. Clicking, hovering, etc does not bring up any additional options.

We're running 3.8.8 p1 and the templates are default (reverted my testing).

[Panzer Max]

Are you using Chrome?

[jlaborde]

I have not tried chrome, but it is the same in Firefox and IE. And again, only for our board - the admin panel is resizable, just like the Quick Reply box on this forum.

[PinkMilk]

If you have a custom skin search for

resize: both;

in Additional CSS in Style Manager and templates themselves, if found remove (Always back stuff up first).

Otherwise try adding this to top of Additional CSS in Style Manager

textarea {
    resize: both;
}

If that also dosent work try:

textarea {
    resize: both!important;
}

[jlaborde]

Thanks for the ideas (I've been out ill so just now getting back to this). With my version, I don' see an 'Additional CSS' (search doesn't find it either) - the closest I see is editor.css. Adding to that regretfully had no effect. The resize option was not found in my style anywhere's beforehand either.

[PinkMilk]

Additional CSS is a box to put css in style mamager not a file, to get to it open:
Admincp > Styles & Templates > Style Manager

then click the go button, scroll to the near bottom of the page and you will see it.

[jlaborde]

Wow do I feel stupid in regards to the 'additional css'. :erm:

That said, no effect, sadly.