Feature #83583
closed"Make Textareas flexible" should allow to resize the textarea via mouse dragging
Added by Kai Strecker almost 7 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.
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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.
Updated by Georg Ringer almost 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Needs Feedback
Updated by Kai Strecker almost 7 years ago
I am using Firefox Developer Edition (58.0b16).
Updated by Riccardo De Contardi almost 7 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".
Updated by Kai Strecker almost 7 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".
Updated by Riccardo De Contardi almost 7 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"?
Updated by Kai Strecker almost 7 years ago
No, it's OK for me, if you change this into a "feature".
Updated by Riccardo De Contardi almost 7 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)
Updated by Riccardo De Contardi over 6 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.
Updated by Riccardo De Contardi over 6 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed