Width of textarea too big

[schmatzler]

Hey everybody! 

I'm using JComments for my whole site and I just can say, that its a wonderful extension! Keep up the good work!

I just have one problem. I'm using JComments also for my video system Seyret and the textarea is too big for my design, its destroying everything.

To check out, what I mean, look here:

http://schmatzler.de/component/option,com_seyret/Itemid,184/task,videodirectlink/id,27/

When I click to write a comment, the textarea show up and is too big. Is there any chance to get the width a little bit smaller?

Regards

[schmatzler]

Oh come on guys, 85 Hits but no answer?^^

You are developing this, is it that hard to give me just a little hint where to search in the files?

[era]

hi, open file <joomla>/components/com_jcomments/tpl/default/jcomments-form.tpl
find string:

Code:

<textarea id="comments-form-comment" onchange="jc_changed({COMMENT-MAXLENGTH});jc_storeCaret(this);" onkeyup="jc_changed({COMMENT-MAXLENGTH});" onselect="jc_storeCaret(this);" onclick="jc_storeCaret(this);" name="comment" cols="65" rows="5" tabindex="4" onfocus="javascript:this.className='selected';" onblur="javascript:this.className='';" onkeypress="return jc_keypress(event);"></textarea>

and change param

cols="65"

to 40 or 30

[textwidth]

Hmmm the same problem here, but the tip doesn't work for me.

Any ideas? jcomments is cool but it destroys my template.

Thank you for fast help

[schmatzler]

Thanx, era, for giving me a little hint, finally I found it out:

The "cols"-argument does nothing, as the width is specified in the style.css of Jcomments.

So it can be deleted from the .tpl-file, it has no sense (in my opinion, maybe something brwoser-specific, but I don't think so).

In style.css there is a passage:

Code:

#comments-form textarea {
color : #444;
background-color: inherit;
font : bold 0.9em Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
max-width : 450px !important;
width : 400px;
padding : 2px;
margin : 0;
border : 1px solid #ccc;

Change max-width to whatever the hell you like

[textwidth]

God bless you, thanks . I swear I went through that file... anyway thanks for help. World of old games finally has jcomments module. Let's deal with that dropdown issue of the JA Purity template and the site will be ready. Thanks a lot again