I've noticed a problem with the textarea fields in IE - they appear very thin, not 100% wide (i.e. you can only type 2 letters per line before the cursor has to move to the line below.

I did a test on my site and added 3 normal text fields (with 1 allowed, 5 allowed and unlimited allowed respectively), and 3 textarea fields (with the same 3 options).
I tested on both FF and IE7 and came up with the following results:
- Everything on FF appears as expected (all fields 100% wide)
- All text fields on IE7 appear as expected
- The single (1 box allowed) textarea appeared as expected on IE7
- The 5 allowed and unlimited textareas appear smaller on IE7 (too thin to be of any use)

I therefore guess that the issue has something to do with textareas on IE that have the 'Drag to re-order' icons next to them (i.e. multiple allowed values).
Can someone please confirm this for me and let me know if it's a known problem or if there's a fix for it?
Thanks!

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yched commented
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

What theme are you using ? can you reproduce if you switch to Garland ?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Ah, I didn't even think of that.
I'm using a custom subtheme of Zen (i.e. used Zen's Starter Kit to make my own theme).

I could not reproduce the effect in Garland, however, suspecting that it wasn't my code that produced the problem, I tested it with both the basic Zen theme and the Zen Starter theme, and found that the problem is visible in both.

If you can confirm this, I'll change this to be a Zen bug...

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yched commented
Project: Content Construction Kit (CCK) » Zen
Version: 6.x-2.1 » 6.x-1.x-dev
Component: text.module » IE Problems
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Active

Right, bumping over to Zen - They'll bump back to us if it turns out something needs to be fixed in CCK.
Please specify the actual Zen version you're using (and also try the latest one if that's not the case)

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.0-beta3

I'm using version 1.0-beta3.
Unless someone can confirm that this is fixed in the latest version, I'm not sure I want to change to using a dev version at this time...

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johnalbin
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I've not seen this kind of problem before. But, I often use Garland as my admin theme. :-\

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lpt6 commented

I have this problem as well, I am using FCKeditor

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lpt6 commented

hi all,
I encountered the same problem which the field become so small in IE 6 that can only type 5 characters.And this does not happen in other themes, pls help as i really like to use zen as the website theme. thx!

btw, i am using the zen classic one
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lpt6 commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

I have solved the result by modifying the css
the problem should be caused by the class "content-multiple-table" , this table css has display problem in IE. I add the width:100% and solved the problem
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andrewl-1 commented

I don't think it's a Zen issue.

I have problems with all themes I use.

The least problematic is Garland where the fields are big enough, but right-justified.

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johnalbin
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Component: IE Problems » CSS/HTML Markup

Which module add a "content-multiple-table" class come and where does that class get applied in the HTML?

This is definitely not a Zen issue, but I don't know where to forward it now. FCKEditor?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I no longer seem to be having this issue... Possibly fixed in a recent version of whatever was causing the problem?

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andrewl-1 commented

Not FCKEditor - I am not using that but still get the problem.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing. Reopen if this is still an issue.