Controlling CKEditor widget size on a page

Good question. It wasn't clear to me how these index numbers were generated. Now it is.

You can add multiple case statements for the same block of code or you could add a default case statement block that would render each case of the unlimited set to be the same size. See if that works.

-Dio

@Willnux - good catch there!

I have never really understood how the language thingy works and after spending a morning trying to figure it out, I'm totally confounded.

I enabled the Locale and Content Translation modules, added another language, enabled multi lingual support on the content type, and added some new content in the new language. After I save this and look at the entry in the field_data_body table, it is ALWAYS 'und' in the language column. AFAIK, the ckeditor module uses this field to create the element id - so no matter how I have things configured, the textarea_id is always edit-body-und-0-value.

What am I missing?

Update: after reading this and this and this, I get the impression this used to work in D6 but does not work in D7. Arrrgh!!!

At any rate here is a slightly modified version of the Drupal.textareaSize() that will hopefully handle these situations. NOTE: no point using this for D7

   Drupal.textareaSize = function(textarea_id, textarea_settings) {
     // Clone the textarea_settings
     // @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/122102/what-is-the-most-efficient-way-to-clone-a-javascript-object/122704#122704
     // @TODO - try out other methods listed in link

     // Deep copy here - not necessary.
     // var clone_set = jQuery.extend(true, {}, textarea_settings);
     // Shallow copy -- still uses jQuery.
     var clone_set = jQuery.extend({}, textarea_settings);
     // @todo - simple dom copy.

     // In the event that the textarea_id has a different language setting.
     var prefix = '-body-';
     var suffix = '-0-';
     var lang = 'und';
     
     var idx1 = textarea_id.indexOf(prefix);
     if(idx1 > 1) {
       // Determine the language setting if it is not 'undefined'.
       // 012345678901234567890
       //'edit-body-und-0-value'
       var idx2 = textarea_id.indexOf(suffix);
       lang = textarea_id.substring(idx1 + 6, idx2);
     }

     switch(textarea_id) {
       // For the summary edit box, if one exists
       case 'edit-body-und-0-summary':
       case 'edit-body-' + lang + '-0-summary':
         clone_set.height = 100;
         break;

       // This value is the visible height in pixels on an iPad I, landscape mode.
       // @see http://www.websitedimensions.com/
       // These are the id's for the plain text and rich text views.  With the
       // styling, a scroll bar will appear if the value is exceeded.
       case 'edit-body-und-0-value':
       case 'edit-body-' + lang + '-0-value':
         clone_set.height = 660;
         break;

       case 'edit-comment-body-und-0-value':
       case 'edit-comment-body-' + lang + '-0-value':
         clone_set.height = 100;
         break;

       default:
         break;
       }
       return clone_set;
   };

I really doubt this is the best way to do things, but it's a start.

@K3vin - Kudos to ya kid. I like your idea better than mine. Can you reroll it as a patch for this module?