[rt-users] Sizing a Custom Field display box

Joop van de Wege JoopvandeWege at mococo.nl
Wed Oct 17 14:05:43 EDT 2007


Stephen Turner wrote:
> At Wednesday 10/17/2007 01:00 PM, Kenneth Crocker wrote:
>> To all,
>>         I have a Custom Field that is "Fill in one text area". On the 
>> display page, there is a tiny little box in which the user is supposed 
>> to enter, what could be, a very large paragraph or two. They basically 
>> have enough room to type in one long word and a small word before it 
>> wraps. Does anyone have a simple method to make the display box/entry 
>> area larger? Thanks.
> 
> Kenn, you can enlarge the width at least, in the site config:
> 
> Set($MessageBoxWidth , 72);
> 
> Also, html//Elements/EditCustomFieldText has Rows and Cols args which 
> can be used to modify the box size beyond the config setting.
And if you're using Firefox there is an extension which will let you 
resize text fields in general. Its name is: Resizable Form Fields.

Joop




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