Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.O.K. put those two things into one issue, but should be doable. Will split if required.
At the moment the comment preview displays the orgininal post below the comment and comment form:
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The other think is the comment text area is way too big. To illustrate this, look at the length of the green and blue line here:
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Still, half the height of the current size of the text area would be enough, it has got a resize handle for mouthy people. Most comments are not longer than what would fit in there.</p>
<p>The size of the comment text area also rips the preview apart, if you look at the first picture with the preview again.</p>
<p>Those two should be really cheap to patch but improve things a lot...</p>
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| comment-preview-smaller.png | 62.37 KB | eigentor | |
| comment-preview.png | 129.94 KB | eigentor | |
| comment-form-length.png | 57.24 KB | eigentor |
Comments
Comment #1
eigentor CreditAttribution: eigentor commentedDarn it, one still cannot edit issues. So the images on their own here:
Original Post below comment text area:
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Here for the size of the comment box:
Comment #2
bobgeier CreditAttribution: bobgeier commentedHave to agree with the comment box size as a usability issue. For almost all applications of comments, the default is just way too large, and setting the default size is too deeply embedded in themeing for relatively inexperienced users. The result is that the comment facility is not usable "out of the box".
Comment #3
Bojhan CreditAttribution: Bojhan commentedI agree its somewhat confusing, but its not really a bug.