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Feature #83583

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"Make Textareas flexible" should allow to resize the textarea via mouse dragging

Added by Kai Strecker over 6 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Closed
Priority:
Could have
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Category:
Backend User Interface
Target version:
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Start date:
2018-01-16
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Description

When editing a data record, textareas should be resizeable, after activating the checkbox "Make Textareas flexible" in the user settings.

But even after activating the checkbox, textareas can not be resized.

Actions #1

Updated by Georg Ringer over 6 years ago

Which browser are you using?

Actions #2

Updated by Georg Ringer over 6 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Needs Feedback
Actions #3

Updated by Kai Strecker over 6 years ago

I am using Firefox Developer Edition (58.0b16).

Actions #4

Updated by Riccardo De Contardi about 6 years ago

I tested with Firefox 57.0.4 64-bit and Chrome 63.0.3239.132 64-bit on MAC , TYPO3 8.7.9 and TYPO3 7.6.23 and in both the textarea works as expected. My test was done using the "bullet" text element.

Can you describe in detail what wrong behavior do you experience? and possibly add some screenshots?

Please note that "resizable text area" has a different meaning in different TYPO3 versions:

- TYPO3 6.2.x = it adds an handlebar on the bottom right corner that allows resizing with the mouse.

- TYPO3 7.6.x and above = it means that the textarea height automatically grows while you type text in it until it reaches the height set in "Maximal Height of flexible Textareas in Pixel".

Actions #5

Updated by Kai Strecker about 6 years ago

We have a textarea, where each line is rendered as a list item in the frontend (like the "bullet" text element).

The problem is, that those list items have much text, which causes them to break up in multiple lines in the textarea.

For the editors it would be much more comfortable, if they could resize the textarea with the mouse. Then they could resize the textarea until no line breaks up into multiple lines.

So this would be the behaviour like in TYPO3 6.2.x: "it adds an handlebar on the bottom right corner that allows resizing with the mouse".

Actions #6

Updated by Riccardo De Contardi about 6 years ago

I guess that the 6.2 behavior was implemented with EXTJs, that has been removed from the core, but mine is just a wild guess.

Do you mind if I change your issue into a "feature"?

Actions #7

Updated by Kai Strecker about 6 years ago

No, it's OK for me, if you change this into a "feature".

Actions #8

Updated by Riccardo De Contardi about 6 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
  • Subject changed from "Make Textareas flexible" in user settings does not work to "Make Textareas flexible" should allow to resize the textarea via mouse dragging
  • Category set to Backend User Interface
  • Status changed from Needs Feedback to New
  • Priority changed from Must have to Could have

Converted from bug to feature.

The feature request ask to bring back the old behavior of the resizable textarea i.e. make them resizable using the mouse dragging (like in version 6.2)

Actions #9

Updated by Riccardo De Contardi over 5 years ago

I close this issue; There are a couple of ways to resize the text editor, just adjusting the yaml configuration file

1) enable the "autogrow" plugin (https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/autogrow)

editor:
   config:
      extraPlugins:
         - autogrow

      #configuration example
      autoGrow_minHeight: "250" 
      autoGrow_maxHeight: "600" 

2) Enable the "Editor Resize" plugin (https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/resize) that lets you resize the editor window with the mouse dragging.

editor:
  config:
    resize_enabled: true
    resize_dir: "both" 

you can find here further information about the possible settings:

- https://ckeditor.com/cke4/addon/resize
- https://docs.ckeditor.com/ckeditor4/latest/api/CKEDITOR_config.html#cfg-resize_dir

If you think that this is the wrong decision or that there is still something that should be done in this area, please reopen it or open a new issue with a reference to this one. Thank you.

Actions #10

Updated by Riccardo De Contardi over 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
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