Mozilla textarea width in Forum

[janderk]

The new message text area is always quite small in Mozilla. I always assumed this was Mozilla bug. However I just happened to install vbulletin on one of my own web sites and noticed that this width can be set in the administration control panel (styles > modify > fonts section).

For Mozilla (Netscape 6) it is set to 40 characters while for Internet Explorer it is set to 70 characters. I get the impression that older Netscape/Mozilla versions did have a bug for which VBulletin tries to compensate. The problem is that now that the bug is repaired in Mozilla the workaround messes things up again.

Assuming that most Mozilla, Netscape users upgraded to the latest versions without the bug, would it be a good idea to set the textarea width to 70 characters again for Netscape6/Mozilla?

Jan Derk

[Justin]

The problem isn't so much a bug in Mozilla or Netscape, rather that all browsers seem to interpret the rows=/cols= settings differently.

To further complicate this, each browser also treats different fonts differently with regard to how wide the text box ends up, especially with non-fixed-width fonts...

So any setting that might work with one font, would cause issues with another (the two templates in these forums have different textbox fonts)...

Personally I don't find the width to be much of a problem, and I use Mozilla exclusively -- but I also use the "Old Blue" template which uses a fixed-width font...

I may experiment a little bit later on the text box sizes to see if we can make it a bit wider for non-IE browsers without any particular font settings becoming too wide...