If your documents are too big you can whittle them down 2 ways: 1. If you have sections of code that could be used as is on other forms, (for example a section building a dropdown list that uses an SQL query to populate it.) , move them into their own methods and use <dtml-var that_method> in their place in your document. 2. If the section is specific to this form you can stash it in a property with a text type and call it with <dtml-var that_property>. Both of these will reduce the size of the main dtml text without changing the form. You could conceivably have a huge page that is nothing but 20 or 30 <dtml-var this_or_that_property_or_method> statements. NOTE: For # 2 to really be usable you need to hack Zope to make the textarea used to display properties of the text type wider and taller. Look in lib/python/ofs/properties.html at about line 65 you will see the following: <dtml-elif "type=='text'"> <textarea name="<dtml-var id>:text" rows="8" cols="60" wrap="off"><dtml-var "getProperty(id)" html_quote></textarea> What you see above already has my changed values for "rows" and "cols" ----------------------------------------------------------- A suggestion for the future: the Zope management interface could be changed to put only a certain number of characters in a textarea. The amount would be a changable property. If the dtml for a page exceeds that amount Zope would serve it up in 2 or more textareas. Jim Sanford ----- Original Message ----- From: Joshua Brauer <Joshua.Brauer@colostate.edu> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 9:35 AM Subject: [Zope] Textarea Limits (slightly off topic) I'm running into a limit to the amount of text that IE 5 will display on the Macintosh. I am wondering if this is true of all browsers and platforms or unique to IE5/Mac. This of course limits the size of documents that can be edited through the manage interface. Now I really wish Pike worked as an editor without it's problems with > signs. Josh -- ------------------------------------------------- Joshua Brauer Computer Support Scientist Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 (970) 491-1080/pager: (970) 498-7995, #5837 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )