Rich text field data entry width not honored
The new rich text field type doesn't seem to honor the "Width of input box" field property in when on a form in edit mode. Instead it expands to the width of the screen (actually, it just expanded pre...
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Thanks! Another slightly annoying issue is the automatic paragraph formatting. Once you hit return, it sticks a carriage return before the beginning of what you typed, and it also forces the blank lines between paragraphs. So if you're not careful, what was in one's mind a simple two-line comment becomes four lines - taking up a lot of room you didn't intend for it to take up.
You can work around this by using the shift-enter to just put in the manual line break, but that is not most people's default set of keystrokes when typing comments. Or you can manually edit the code behind it, which also is not optimal.
Begin typing
Hit the carriage return
This is how I *want* it to look:
And this is how it looks in a table view - lots and lots of wasted space (top) vs. optimal:
You can work around this by using the shift-enter to just put in the manual line break, but that is not most people's default set of keystrokes when typing comments. Or you can manually edit the code behind it, which also is not optimal.
Begin typing
Hit the carriage return
This is how I *want* it to look:
And this is how it looks in a table view - lots and lots of wasted space (top) vs. optimal: