Title: erratic textarea width in admin page
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# erratic textarea width in admin page

 *  [yukie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yukie/)
 * (@yukie)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/)
 * in various places, such as the template editor (or even this form where i’m typing
   this post), the textarea suddenly goes berserk and extends its width when i begin
   typing something…i guess this must be some kind of IE bug? (i’m on an IE6 right
   now, and haven’t checked it yet with mozilla)
    i know i could always just fix
   the size of the textarea in the css but perhaps the default install should consider
   this? since a lot of people use IE no matter how we complain. 🙂

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 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-79379)
 * yukie,
    Your post is a bit confusing because it seems as though you are talking
   about both this forum and your site. Is this the case? The default install does
   work in IE, BTW. Perhaps you have some corrupted files?
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-79963)
 * I am getting the same problem, even this posting box, it does kind of go erratic.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-79964)
 * Well I just did some searched on it but it keeps referring me back to the css
   file telling me to edit the commentbox width to less than 75% but how would that
   make a difference? After all I am getting the problem on this site as well. Sorry
   if Im sounding confusing
 *  [Delete this account](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam/)
 * (@sam)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-80007)
 * I’ve just discovered the same problem, Doesn’t happen in Firefox, but someone
   using Avant, just pointed it out to me, and now i’ve noticed it in IE6…
 *  [muffinboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muffinboy/)
 * (@muffinboy)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-80008)
 * I confirm this behavior on the forums. This indeed happens with IE6 and IE5.5
   on WinXP SP1.
    The forums go wild in IE5 with huuuuge white spaces appearing 
   and the textarea is already very very wide in IE5, but doesn’t resize when you
   start typing in it. I can’t confirm it for the standard WP install, as I just
   ripped out all the css for my test site.
 *  [knuckles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knuckles/)
 * (@knuckles)
 * [21 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-80021)
 * I’m throwing my hat in the ring to say I too have the same problem. For my blog,
   i changed the value in the wp-comments.php file for textarea name=”comment”, 
   rows=”4″ to rows=”10 to increase the height of the text box. I then changed the
   value in wp-layout.css file for #commentform textarea from width= 75% to width:
   600px so that the width of the text box will remain a fixed width. This has solved
   the problem on my blog.
 *  [Christian Montoya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirokai/)
 * (@sirokai)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-80075)
 * I found this problem too. Seems to be an IE bug for sure. I have my comment forms
   on my WordPress theme set to 80%, so to keep that setting in the good browsers,
   I apply a width of 450px specifically to IE, like so:
 * #commentform textarea { width:80%; }
 * * html #commentform textarea { width:450px; }
 * What comes after ” * html ” is only seen by IE. Works great!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 7 participants
 * Last reply from: [Christian Montoya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirokai/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/erratic-textarea-width-in-admin-page/#post-80075)
 * Status: not resolved

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