Last modified: 2011-10-17 22:48:49 UTC
This was first posted here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Semantic_Forms#Autogrow_bug I have confirmed it in Opera and in Google Chrome. Opera has the free text field collapse to just one line, while the Google Chrome behavior is to expand to a size much larger than necessary, which sounds similar to the reported FireFox behavior. A solution may have been explored already, here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3723963/jquery-val-does-not-work-for-textarea-in-opera
I can confirm this in FF7 as well as IE8. In FF7, I tried activating autogrow on a few fields. This worked as expected when creating new pages; however, upon editing existing pages with moderate amounts of text, the field was out of control. For instance, a field that had about 50 lines of text, the field actually loaded with about 150 rows, 100 of which were empty.
I believe I just fixed this in SVN. The issue was that the default width for textareas changed from 80 columns to "100%" - i.e., a pixel width instead of a character width - and the autogrow Javascript couldn't handle that correctly. I changed the default width to be a columns value again, if autogrow is set, and now it seems to be working fine.
