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[vbhacker] Mozilla Text Area Fix · **Released**: 06-03-2002

This hack fixes the problem with Mozilla and the text area on the forum. Mozilla reads the width attribute different than netscape and causes the text area's to be narrow and very fustrating to use when you are typing in a lot of code or just a long message.

Description of what was changed:

I changed the function gettextareawidth to have mozilla use the width specified for IE instead of the width specified for Netscape.

I hope you all like my first hack.

SiD

Sketch · #32 01-07-2003, 01:08 AM

ergh....can someone please paste the instructions here. I don't know what's wrong with my PC, but I think I'm getting random screwy characters in downloaded text files. I keep getting T-String errors....

Aaron

Smoothie · #33 01-07-2003, 01:59 AM

yea, login to your admin cp, styles, modify, click [fonts/colors/etc], scroll down to the bottom. Textarea Widths, change Netscape Navigator 6.0 to 70, click save changes. Works for me.

Erwin · #34 02-10-2003, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Smoothie
yea, login to your admin cp, styles, modify, click [fonts/colors/etc], scroll down to the bottom. Textarea Widths, change Netscape Navigator 6.0 to 70, click save changes. Works for me.

Yes, but the textarea in Netscape 6.0 may then be too big.

Without this hack, by default, vB 2.2.9 Mozilla uses Netscape 6.0 width, which is by default 40.

With this hack, vB 2.2.9 Mozilla uses the IE textarea width instead which is set at 70.

That's the difference.

Smoothie · #35 02-10-2003, 04:13 PM

They both (Mozilla, Netscape) appear the same (text area) to me, without this hack

Mr. X · #36 04-05-2003, 05:47 AM

Is there ever going to be .txt instructions posted or what? I could use this hack for some of my Moz users. The textarea in IE6 is fine, but in Moz its simply too small, and changing the values in the styles section does nothing.

Erwin · #37 04-05-2003, 09:32 AM

EDIT: Updated the instructions to make it clearer...

In functions.php, replace this section:

PHP Code:


			
// ###################### Start gettextareawidth #######################

function gettextareawidth() {

    // attempts to fix idiotic Nutscrape textarea width problems

    global $HTTP_USER_AGENT;



    if (eregi("MSIE",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) { // browser is IE

        return "{textareacols_IE}";



    } elseif (eregi("Mozilla/5.0",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) { // browser is NS 6

        return "{textareacols_NS6}";



    } elseif (eregi("Mozilla/4.",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) { // browser is NS4

        return "{textareacols_NS4}";



    } else { // unknown browser - stick in a sensible value

        return 60;



    }



}

with this:

PHP Code:


			
// ###################### Start gettextareawidth #######################

function gettextareawidth() {

    // attempts to fix idiotic Nutscrape textarea width problems

    global $HTTP_USER_AGENT;



    if (eregi("MSIE",$HTTP_USER_AGENT) || (eregi("Mozilla/5",$HTTP_USER_AGENT) && !eregi("Netscape6/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT))) { // browser is IE

        return "{textareacols_IE}";

        

    } elseif (eregi("Netscape6/",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) { // browser is NS 6

        return "{textareacols_NS6}";

        

    } elseif (eregi("Mozilla/4.",$HTTP_USER_AGENT)) { // browser is NS4

        return "{textareacols_NS4}";





    } else { // unknown browser - stick in a sensible value

        return 60;



    }



}

attroll · #38 04-05-2003, 02:42 PM

Erwin

I did what you said above and I get the foolowing error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in /home/attroll/public_html/forum/admin/functions.php on line 334

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getuserinfo() in /home/attroll/public_html/forum/admin/sessions.php on line 366

Mr. X · #39 04-05-2003, 07:49 PM

Hmm, Im getting the same thing.

Erwin · #40 04-05-2003, 11:24 PM

When I cut and paste, I only left one / instead of the normal // for commenting out text. Sorry - try it again now. Btw, this is probably different to the code being used by the thread starter - this is code from vB.com developers (from memory).

attroll · #41 04-05-2003, 11:40 PM

Nope I get this error now which is pretty much the same one I got before.

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',' in /home/attroll/public_html/forum/admin/functions.php on line 335

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getuserinfo() in /home/attroll/public_html/forum/admin/sessions.php on line 366

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