textarea bug on IE (Special:Emailuser)
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	• bzimport
	Jul 25 2005, 9:05 PM

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Author: netoholic

Description:
Most noticable on Special:Emailuser, the textarea form field is compacted on IE.
Due to an incompatibility (shock), the CSS specification of "width: 100%;" in the
main.css of many skins fails. The result is a textare field which is about 20
characters wide. Not very useful when writing an email.

Please correct these CSS files:

monobook/IE60Fixes.css
wikimania/IE60Fixes.css
amethyst/IE60Fixes.css

Replace the current "textarea" specification with this:

textarea { width: auto; }

This seems to restore it to working order.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC

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Reference: bz2965

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:41 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.

• bzimport set Reference to bz2965.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Jul 25 2005, 9:05 PM

netoholic wrote:

Alternatively, there is are workarounds which would require changing the form itself. Dunno
how any of these look on other browsers though.

http://fplanque.net/2003/Articles/iecsstextarea/

netoholic wrote:

Actually, forget the resolution in the first section. Textarea seems to work fin for editing boxes,
just not on Special:Emailuser.

My IE installation under VirtualPC seems to be weirdly broken. Can someone with Windows test this?

robchur wrote:

Looks fine to me now using IE 6. Fixed as of 1.6 at least, as far as I can tell.

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