[PATCH] Enlarge the textareas in Settings > Formatting

I noticed this too, I’ve let Marcus know about it.

I was hoping this would have been included in 5.3.3, as editing HTML formatting in the admin area is a pain before this patch is implemented.

Marcus: Any chance of this getting into the next update?

It’d be useful to make a similar update for the widgets as well by increasing their textarea widths to 100% and considering increasing the amount of rows from 5 to 6.

1. The better option in my opinion: wrap all widgets’ admin forms in classes and then add a CSS rule. This is better in terms of being update-safe and for user customizations. On way to do it is to add an invisible wrapper div. In widgets/em-events.php you’d replace the line 74:

<p>

with

<div class="em-widget-form em-widget-locations-form">
<p>

and close it by replacing line 115

</p>

with

</p>
</div>

The corresponding update should be done to widgets/em-events.php and widgets/em-calendar.php.

When that’s done, the core deserves a CSS change to includes/css/events_manager_admin.css much like in previous post::

.em-widget-form textarea { width: 100%; }

2. Another option is to make a less customizable change. In widgets/em-events.php the line 156:

<textarea rows="5" cols="24" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('format'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('format'); ?>"><?php echo $instance['format']; ?></textarea>

should be changed to this for optimal width:

<textarea rows="5" cols="24" style="width:100%" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('format'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('format'); ?>"><?php echo $instance['format']; ?></textarea>

or to this for one additional row for even more comfortable editing:

<textarea rows="6" cols="24" style="width:100%" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('format'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('format'); ?>"><?php echo $instance['format']; ?></textarea>

In widgets/em-locations.php the corresponding line is 114.

on the todo list but not exactly high priority so can’t say when, width 100% wouldn’t work in some cases so need to test that

Which cases would they be? I’d love to help by testing.