Width of registration form fields

Is there some way to change the length of the registration form fields - especially the TinyMCE "DescriptionMe" field?   It is almost comically narrow, and changing the width of the column seems to have no effect.  D7 might more or less work with other bugs, but a clean registration system is absolutely critical and I consider this a "show stopper" flaw.   Unless I am missing something and there is a way to adjust that length, could someone with access to TRAC please write this up.

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Rob

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p.s.  I also posted that if you don't you the promo image display, and instead use a custom html block, you get this absurdly small TinyMCE block - something that worked just fine in 6.1.   Please write that up as well.

Here is a snap of this situation.  Note how my multiple select "industry" field has been cut off (and also the comically narrow "descriptionme" field, which has already been discussed).  Is there a way to fix this?  The format of the registration page is really important, and it is not really acceptable the way it is.

This is exactly the same in D7B5 - two betas later.   Could someone with Boonex "pundit" status please report this - or if someone know how to fix let me know.  I think it looks like crap.

They actually fixed this for ads, events and other areas, just not the join and profile updates pages yet.

Could someone please, please, please put this in trac.  Once we go live, this is the first thing potential members will see, and this is quite a turn-off.  I looked a the 6.1 join form and it is also fixed width, but looks ok.  At least make this form wider - that can't be that hard.

Ok, I am begging now.  Could one of our esteemed, honorable, exhaulted Pundits, please, please, please put this in trac.  If the next version comes out with this still looking like this, it will be worthless to me.  Then I will have to wait until still the next beta and hope that this width issue is fixed by then.  This is the first thing anyone sees who registers, so it is obviously important.

Here is another related issue.  I changed the multiple select for "industries" that you can see above, to "check boxes".  It didn't even come close to working.  Here is a snap of how it went off the form (about 20 checkboxes should have shown).

templates/base/css/forms_adv.css


About line 255:

Change:

width: 196px;

To:

width: 350px;  I'm not sure if the fixed wider width will cause problems in other areas of the site.  If it does, you can make it a fluid width by changing it to width: 90%;

You can also change line 242,  height: 157px;      to    height: 250px;  (This will add more height to Tiny MCE editor window)

That checkbox thing is probably a nowrap.  You really should use a dropdown list for that.

Cool, thank you - the default should be fixed though - much wider by someone who understands the implications for the rest of the site (if any).  The check box thing was just an experiment - but that does seem like a bug.

Ticket 1099