[Zope-dev] ZMI textareas on Windows IE6 are '100%+' wide, cause scrolling inconvenience

[Joachim Werner]

Hi!

I think the problem is more severe. IE 6 has obviously changed behaviour
compared to IE 5.5. I'd call it a bug. It now always calculates "100%" with
the right-hand bar's width INCLUDED, so there are other side-effects than
the one you are describing, like the last tab on the right being partially
covered by the scroll bar.

So if we change the HTML, it should limit the width of the WHOLE right-hand
frame, not just the textarea's width ...

Unfortunately this will only work automatically with some browser detection
...

Joachim


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kowalczyk" <jtk@adelphia.net>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 3:02 AM
Subject: [Zope-dev] ZMI textareas on Windows IE6 are '100%+' wide, cause
scrolling inconvenience


> On my Zope 2.5.0 running on WindowsXP/IE6, the ZMI's textarea boxes, for
> things like editing PageTemplates, becomes too wide for the frame when
> the vertical scrollbar is required, causing an inconvenient
> side-scrolling behavior. The frame must be scrolled sideways to view the
> text areas's scrollbars, which then obsures the far left of the
> textarea.
>
> This is the code in question (for a PT edit page, there are many others)
>       Expand macros when editing
>     </td>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>     <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="4">
>   <div style="width: 100%;">
>   <textarea name="text:text" wrap="off" style="width: 100%;"
>             cols="40" rows="15">&lt;html metal:define-macro="page"&gt;
>
> Would it not help to make the textarea and div width 90% or so to
> account for the potential width of the side-scroll bar on the right-hand
> ZMI frame? Or even better, this could become a preference setting, since
> some users will have very narrow scrollbars or extreme vertical
> resolutions. After all, there is a cols/rows insertion right next to it,
> perhaps a new preference setting is easy enough to add...
>
>
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