Control panel is tiny! Need more space especially editing templates.
Feature Requests
Hello there,
I’m finally updating some EE2 sites due to the imminent retirement of the software. After updating a site to EE3, I’m a little frustrated with the template editing panel. I do store templates as files and mostly update via that route, but sometimes a quick change is required via the control panel. The template editor window is so small that I only see 17 lines of code. Very small on a 24” desktop display (it’s even an old monitor).
Request: make template editing panels (and other fixed-size panels) bigger so that we have more space to work with on larger displays.
Chiming in on this to say, in EE 3.3.4, I could manually resize the template-editing textarea in Chrome and Opera. I cannot do that in 3.5.2. Please reallow this? It really helped. (I’m another person who prefers to make minor edits in the CP rather than make the edits on my desktop/in the file and re-upload it.)
I can still manually resize the textarea fields in the entry publishing screen. I’d like to have this resizing ability in the template editing screen, please.
I just noticed (in Chrome at least) there is a down arrow and you can drag to resize if you roll over the bottom border of that textarea panel. Still, easy to miss, and the default right corner draggable area might be easier. Your cursor has to be over that bottom border exactly. Makes it a small cursor target.
Hm - yep, this ability is there in Opera, as well. (Not too surprising since Opera switched over to using the same rendering engine - WebKit - back around version 12 or so.)
But, note to the EE crew, having a uniform UI would be kind of nice.
You used to be able to set a number of viewable lines in EE2 for the Edit box. 😊
Hi Folks,
Thanks for the feedback. The reason the UI for the template editor is different for resizing is because the editor is a div that is hiding a textarea, so the browser doesn’t apply the same browser ui for resizable textareas onto the div.
I’d like to add a global setting that folks can use to set the height of the text editor to their desired height. The height used currently is a happy medium between desktop use and mobile browsing. The template manager in general is a convenience feature, and is not intended to be a full blown replacement for a file editor or workflow.
You can chande de max-width of .col-group in common.css.. at least it will be wider! and as dsgreen mention.. there is a down arrow and you can drag to resize if you roll over the bottom border of that textarea panel. Very easy to miss!!