[pmwiki-devel] Edit Form Attributes (width\height)

[Petko Yotov]

On 02/02/2021 23:17, Michael Elliott wrote:
> In PMWiki where is the appropriate place to change\set the Edit
> TextArea Width (AKA cols) and height (AKA rows)?
> I saw some obsolete Cookbooks and also tried editing Site.EditForm
> page adding properties to (:input e_textarea :) without success.

Some skins use a separate edit form page, not Site.EditForm -- check the 
skin documentation.

To set it by default for all users, add to config.php:

   $XL['en']['e_cols'] = 90;
   $XL['en']['e_rows'] = 12;

If you're loading a different language via XLPage(), change the key 'en' 
with the key for your language e.g. 'fr' for French. If you're using 
multiple languages, add them as new lines.

Independently of the above, you and other users can set their own 
preferences for this, see the pages:

   https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SitePreferences
   https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Site/Preferences

They need to create on your own wiki a page Group.MyPrefs with the 
settings and follow a link like ?setprefs=Group.MyPrefs. Then their 
preferences page is remembered in a cookie and will be parsed to get the 
numbers when they edit a page.

Also note that some skins may use a different edit form, and/or set the 
textarea width and height via CSS (which overrides the cols and rows 
attributes). The PmWiki-responsive skin for example sets the textarea 
width. In that case, you can set the width and height in the file 
pub/css/local.css (which normally overrides the skin's CSS file):

   #wikiedit textarea {
     width: 99.5%;
     max-width: 99.5%;
     max-height: 60vh;
   }

If it is a core skin, or one from the cookbook, this allows you to keep 
the original skin and is easier to update the skin to a new version 
without losing your customization.

(The selector "#wikiedit textarea" should be standard for most skins but 
some skins may use their own CSS classes and identifiers. If you have 
difficulties, ask the maintainer of the skin -- or here on the mailing 
list.)

Petko