comments field width

[crl]

How do I increase the width of the editable field in "Add your comment"?
For anonymous (guest users) it's then particularly too narrow. I have gone through the settings and also searched the forum but cannot find the answer.

[Sami]

Copy $template_add_your_comment variable from themes/sample/theme.php to themes/your theme/theme.php
and change the way you want to

[crl]

Thanks!
Please could you explain a bit more?

[Sami]

if you don't have $template_add_your_comment variable on themes/your theme/theme.php copy this 
just before ?> and if you have it change it to this

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$template_add_your_comment = <<<EOT
<table align="center" width="{WIDTH}" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">
        <tr>
                <td width="100%" class="tableh2_compact"><b>{ADD_YOUR_COMMENT}</b></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
                <td colspan="3">
                <form method="post" name="post" action="db_input.php">
                        <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">

<!-- BEGIN user_name_input -->
                                <tr><td class="tableb_compact" style="width:50px;">{NAME}</td>
                                <td class="tableb_compact" style="width: 98%;">
                                        <input type="text" class="textinput" name="msg_author" size="10" maxlength="20" value="{USER_NAME}" />
                                </td>
</tr>
<!-- END user_name_input -->
<!-- BEGIN input_box_smilies -->
                                <tr>
<td class="tableb_compact">{COMMENT} </td>
                                <td class="tableb_compact">
                                <textarea class="textinput" id="message" name="msg_body" onselect="storeCaret_post(this);" onclick="storeCaret_post(this);" onkeyup="storeCaret_post(this);" maxlength="{MAX_COM_LENGTH}" style="width: 98%;" rows="2"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<!-- END input_box_smilies -->
<!-- BEGIN input_box_no_smilies -->
<tr>
                                <td class="tableb_compact">{COMMENT} </td>
<td class="tableb_compact">
                                <textarea class="textinput" id="message" name="msg_body"  maxlength="{MAX_COM_LENGTH}" style="width: 98%;" rows="2"></textarea></td></tr>
<!-- END input_box_no_smilies -->
<tr>
                                <td class="tableb_compact" colspan="2" align="center">
                                <input type="hidden" name="event" value="comment" />
                                <input type="hidden" name="pid" value="{PIC_ID}" />
                                <input type="submit" class="comment_button" name="submit" value="{OK}" />
                                </td></tr>
                        </table>
                </form>
                </td>
        </tr>
<!-- BEGIN smilies -->
        <tr>
                <td width="100%" class="tableb_compact">
                        {SMILIES}
                </td>
        </tr>
</table>
<!-- END smilies -->

EOT;



I didn't test it , let me know if it doesn't work
- post a link to your galley

[crl]

Thank you for assisting me the comment field problem. I found out that a lot of the problem was caused using the multi-line plug in, it's now disabled!
I have added the code you supplied to the theme.php, it's now looking fine! But is there a way that I can extend the fields height? i.e instead of one line have several, like the multi-line plug in is supposed to achieve!

pm sent with the gallery details

thanks

[Sami]

I've updated my last post try new code

[crl]

Sami

I have tried the new code!
It's working fine now in Firefox, but with IE7 the fields are too short again.
So perhaps it's an IE problem?

Thanks for you help, it's much appreciated

Chris

[Sami]

as always M$ doesn't operate !
I don't have IE7 installed it was blind guess
code updated , Try it

[crl]

Sami

Now working with IE!
It's nearly perfect, but is there a way to increase the field height further? at the moment it's a 3 line field in firefox and 2 in IE. Ideally I would like something like a 7 or 8 lines in the field.

Thanks
Chris

[Sami]

it's really simple just set the rows attribute of both textarea to 3 or higher , currently they are 2

[crl]

Sami

Thank you for your invaluable help!
It's all sorted now

Chris