'Whisper to' box too short

circuit

I have users registering and logging in through Wordpress, so they are allowed to have long usernames. However, the text input box for 'Whisper your comments to' is too short to allow some of them. Is there any quick fix for this without editing the code? And if I do have to edit the code, which file would I find it in? Many thanks.

Mark

Open up /path/to/vanilla/themes/vanilla/styles/default/vanilla.css and search for #WhisperUsername. You'll find the following line:

#WhisperUsername, #WhisperAutoCompleteResults { width: 200px; }

Change that width to whatever you want.

circuit

hi mark. thanks for the reply. that's not quite what i need though. the problem is that i can't actually get enough characters in the box. one of my usernames is 24 characters, for example.

Wanderer

The actual form has a MAXLENGTH attribute...

It's in themes/comment_form.php
<input id="WhisperUsername" name="WhisperUsername" type="text" value="'.$Comment->WhisperUsername.'" class="Whisper AutoCompleteInput" maxlength="20" />
So change maxlength="20" to 30 or higher or remove the MAXLENGTH attribute altogether.

Later:
And as Mark says: You will likely want to do the same thing for /path/to/vanilla/themes/discussion_form.php

Mark

Okay, find the file /path/to/vanilla/themes/comment_form.php and copy it to /path/to/vanilla/themes/vanilla/comment_form.php. Then open it up and look for this line:

<input id="WhisperUsername" name="WhisperUsername" type="text" value="'.$Comment->WhisperUsername.'" class="Whisper AutoCompleteInput" maxlength="20" />

Change the "maxlength" setting to something else and you should be good to go.

You will likely want to do the same thing for /path/to/vanilla/themes/discussion_form.php

Mark

Doh! 8 seconds late