[imp] Dynamically sized form elements for IMP's compose screen

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von "Kevin M. Myer" <kevin_myer at iu13.org>:

> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>
>> This is possible with an "onkeypress" event handler setting the field
>> size dynamically. But that won't help, because soon the field would
>> extend the compose screen, any you have to scroll again.
>
> I'm not sure I quite follow this.  Does this extend the field to the 
> right, or
> would it wrap the text after N number of characters?  If the latter,
> that would
> be exactly what I want.  If a message has lots of addresses, its ok 
> to have to
> scroll to get to the actual Text field for typing in a message.  But if you
> mean that it would extend to the right, then yes, you'd run out of 
> space again
> in rather short order.

It would expand to the right.

> I just think its far from ideal having a fixed width form field that
> will accept
> hundreds or thousands of characters, but only display 55.

But it isn't better to have a field allowing to show thousands of 
characters if you normally need only 10.

Jan.

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