[Zope-dev] ZMI: IE6 TextArea width bug: fix on tap for 2.6?

[marc lindahl]

There's a couple good starting points for looking at this stuff...

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/dao/

> From: "Jeff Kowalczyk" <jtk@adelphia.net>
> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:12:44 -0500
> To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
> Subject: [Zope-dev] ZMI: IE6 TextArea width bug: fix on tap for 2.6?
> 
> I was wondering if there was any consensus on how best to fix or
> compensate for the unfortunate behaviour of IE6 with regards to the
> width calculation of textarea boxes. For anyone who hasn't seen it, the
> full-width texareas that are everywhere in the ZMI suddenly started
> pushing the width out in IE6, causing the horizontal scrollbar to become
> active, and generally making ZMI editing life miserable.
> 
> Would it be possible to include in 2.6 (or 2.5.1, even better) a user
> preference, sitewide configuration setting, or other means of
> suppressing a few pixels/percent of that default width? I'm loathe to
> apply a massive search-replace to put "95%" in my local ZMI source, and
> IE6 must be a common enough platform for Zope users to warrant a
> workaround. I wouldn't hold my breath that MS would fix IE or anything
> sensible like that.
> 
> It would be a shame to slow the whole thing down with browser detection
> logic for this one bug, unless that opened up the door for some of the
> Javascript/DHTML editors as a per-user preference for editing certain
> metatypes.
> 
> 
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