I’ve recently downloaded Mozilla to use as a browser. Mere minutes ago, I posted my first New Thread to SDMB from the Mozilla Browser. One of the first things I noticed was that the message box on the Post New Thread page is significantly narrower in Mozilla than it is in Internet Explorer.
In Mozilla, the messagae box in which I am presently typing extends just past the right side of the Quote button above. But when I open the Post New Thread page in IE, the message box extends all the way over to align with the letter g in the text “Close Current Tag.”
I also noticed that this box does not have a scroll bar on the right side until my text actually reaches the bottom of the box. But in IE, there is alredy an inactive scroll bar there (which becomes active when text reaches the bottom of the message box).
The Quick Reply Message boxes are the same width in both browsers.
Does anyone know if I can widen my messasge box in Mozilla? Or is this just an artifact of how Mozilla reads the vB code versus how IE reads it?
It’s been doing this from the beginning (on Netscape at least) but there’s no fix as far as I can tell. I checked out the code, and from what I can tell, Mozilla follows the code correctly. I was unable to figure out why the box is so much wider in Internet Explorer.
As for the scroll bar, that’s an option of your user agent; I doubt you can toggle it. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing about scroll bars for textareas in the HTML specs.
Here are the two textarea tags that describe the reply box. The first one is for the Quick Reply box, and the second one is for the full Your Reply box. The attribute that describes the width of the box is “cols”, and as you can see, it’s 70 and 40, respectively. It seems to me that that’s how they wanted it to look, but I don’t know why.
<textarea name=“message” rows=“10” cols=“70” wrap=“virtual” tabindex=“2”>
<textarea name=“message” rows=“20” cols=“40” wrap=“virtual” tabindex=“2”>
Thank you for the explanation, Achernar. I appreciate the in-depth answer.
–toast
I know what you mean about it cramping your style, Futile Gesture. You know what I do about that? Frequent previews. I don’t even read what I type, except in the Post Preview box.
Since this seems to be an issue specific to vBulletin, I’ll move this thread to ATMB.