At the moment the text area in the edit form has a fixed size of 20 rows. On longer pages its not very comfortable to edit pages with such a small box. The whole screen size should be used instead([example](http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/bl10u9mb/editingtodo_1241804460828.png)). > The whole screen width is used, via the following > from style.css: > > { > width: 100%; > } > > Perhaps you have replaced it with a modified style sheet that does not > include that? --[[Joey]] >> The screen shot was made with http://ikiwiki.info/ where i didn't change anything. The width is optimally used. The problem is the height. >>> You confused me by talking about rows... >>> I don't know how to allow CSS to resize a textarea >>> to the full browser height. The obvious `height: 75%;` >>> does not work, at least in firefox and epiphany. >>> >>> Ah, of course, if it did work, it'd make it be 75% of >>> the full *page* height, and not the browser window height. >>> >>> According to >>> [this page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/632983/css-height-if-textarea-as-a-percentage-of-the-viewport-height): >>>>>50% of what? Parent says ‘auto’, which means base it on the height of the child content. Which depends on the height on the parent. Argh! etc. >>>>> >>>>>So you have to give its parent a percentage height. And the parent's parent, all the way up to the root. >>> So, other than a javascript-based resizer, some very tricky and invasive CSS >>> seems to be needed. Please someone let me know if you succeed in doing that. >>> --[[Joey]] >>>>>> the javascript approach would need to work something like this: you need to know about the "bottom-most" item on the edit page, and get a handle for that object in the DOM. You can then obtain the absolute position height-wise of this element and the absolute position of the bottom of the window to determine the pixel-difference. Then, you set the height of the textarea to (current height in px) + determined-value. This needs to be re-triggered on various resize events, at least for the window and probably for other elements too. I may have a stab at this at some point. -- [[Jon]] Google chrome has a completly elegant fix for this problem: All textareas have a small resize handle in a corner, that can be dragged around. No nasty javascript needed. IMHO, this is the right solution, and I hope other browsers emulate it. [[done]] --[[Joey]] Wouldn't it be possible to just implement an integer-valued setting for this, accessible via the "Setup" wiki page? This would require a wiki regen, but such a setting would not be changed frequently I suppose. Also, Mediawiki has this implemented as a per-user setting (two settings, actually, -- number of rows and columns of the edit area); such a per-user setting would be the best possible implementation, but I'm not sure if ikiwiki already supports per-user settings. Please consider implementing this as the current 20 rows is a great PITA for any non-trivial page. > I don't think it would need a wiki rebuild, as the textarea is generated dynamically by the CGI when you perform a CGI action, and (as far as I know) is not cooked into any static content. -- [[Jon]] >> There is no need for a configuration setting for this -- to change >> the default height from 20 rows to something else, you can just put >> something like this in your `local.css`: --[[Joey]] #editcontent { height: 50em; }