How Do You Change Textarea Box Size? [SOLVED]

[stanhook]

Hi,

I have disabled the TinyMCE text editor so I could have a plain box. But the box is too large and I need to make it smaller. I have changed the settings in parameters, tried changing the view.html.php file and some others. I have poked around and changed other stuff only to come up empty. Could you please point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

Stan

[Jan]

Hi, try to set the table width too (in parameters component)


this is the code for displaying the textarea:

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if ($tmpl['enableeditor'] == 1) {
			$editor = PhocaguestbookHelper::displayTextArea('pgbcontent',  $formdata->content , (int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px', (int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px', '60', '80', false );
		} else {
			$editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="45" rows="10" style="width: '.(int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px; height:'.(int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
		
		}

in
components\com_phocaguestbook\views\phocaguestbook\view.html.php

Jan

[stanhook]

Hi Jan,

I changed your the cols attribute code in the view.html.php to this:

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if ($tmpl['enableeditor'] == 1) {
			$editor = PhocaguestbookHelper::displayTextArea('pgbcontent',  $formdata->content , (int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px', (int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px', '60', '80', false );
		} else {
			$editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="5" rows="10" style="width: '.(int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px; height:'.(int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
		
		}

and I changed the default.php in the tmpl folder to:

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<table border="0" style="margin-left: 40px;" width="350px">

but still no luck. I have spent half a day and my mind is melting. I had tried some code that suggested to change the textarea totally but then I had other issues.

By the way, the parameters in the backend are set to text editor no and the table and editor width and height to 100px. Still no effect.

In the view.html.php page should I change the style=width also?

What am I missing?

[stanhook]

If got it fixed. Here is what I did:

I used this code in the view.html.php page:

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if ($tmpl['enableeditor'] == 1) {
			$editor = PhocaguestbookHelper::displayTextArea('pgbcontent',  $formdata->content , (int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px', (int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px', '60', '80', false );
		} else {
			$editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="45" rows="10" style="width: '.(int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px; height:'.(int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
		
		}

and changed the $editor = '<textarea ... to this:

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 else {
			$editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="5" rows="10" style="width: 300px; height:200px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
		
		}

I don't know if the cols and row attribute matter. But it was the width and height that fixed my issue.

Thanks Jan for pointing me in the right direction.

Stan

[Jan]

great to hear it, Jan

[slymndvc]

Hi,

I was looking for how to change the dimentions of the text area and find this post, but my situation is TinyMCE enabled. I have changed the parameters from the backand but nothing changed. I have also tried to change the code written above post, but couldn't get any result.

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    if ($tmpl['enableeditor'] == 1) {
             $editor = PhocaguestbookHelper::displayTextArea('pgbcontent',  $formdata->content , (int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px', (int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px', '60', '80', false );
          } else {
             $editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="45" rows="10" style="width: '.(int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px; height:'.(int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
          
          }

Would you please show me what should be changed on the code above to solve the problem given in the attached image?

[Jan]

Did you change the pareamters in Parameters Component in menu link to Phoca Guestbook?

[slymndvc]

Did you change the pareamters in Parameters Component in menu link to Phoca Guestbook?

Dear Jan,
Of course, firstly I have tried to change parameters from the component menu, but it didn't work. I think I have to change something from below, but not sure where;

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   } else {
             $editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="45" rows="10" style="width: '.(int)$tmpl['editorwidth'].'px; height:'.(int)$tmpl['editorheight'].'px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
         
          }

I have used the code below (which is posted by stan);

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else {
         $editor = '<textarea id="pgbcontent" name="pgbcontent" cols="5" rows="10" style="width: 300px; height:200px;" >'.$formdata->content.'</textarea>';
      
      }

but then I got the error message "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /home/eressam/public_html/components/com_phocaguestbook/views/phocaguestbook/view.html.php on line 151"

So, still I need help.

Frienly regards.

Suleyman

[Jan]

Hi, the parse error is error in php script, somewhere you have lost ; or ) (, try to check your code