help! reply box is only 3 letters wide!!!!

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this is weird!—when I click on “Reply” I get presented with a title box which is only about 5 words long, and the “main” reply box is exactly five characters wide!!! What is going on??
As I type this, each word or part of a word appears and (after the 5th letter )moves “up” the narrow box, making my typing illegible to me.But when I click on “preview post” I get the regular box, in which I can type normally.

Please fix this! I am totally computer-illiterate and use a standard PC straight out of the box, with Windows XP (home edition 2002, service pack 2 and browser IE 6.0.2900)

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You’re not the only one.

The problem appears to be at least somehat browser independent (I’m using Opera).
Also, for me it is not fixed by previewing, but the text area is normally sized when editing a post.

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Not seeing this in Windows XP/IE7/Firefox/Chrome.

And I have no clue what’s causing the situation you’re seeing.

I’ll let Jerry know but it does sound like perhaps this is complicated by a browser issue of some kind on your end.

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It’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Smaller posts will help the board run faster.