Courtyard Heron

Movable Type Hack

An annoyance for about 6 months:

Problem: The Movable Type new entry text entry boxes are too narrow when rendered either in IE or in Firefox on a computer that is running at high screen resolution.

Solution: I was too lazy to rehack the MT templates extensively, but I did find an easy change that solved the problem for me in Movable Type 2.64, which I'll describe here even though it is a miserable hack, in the hopes of helping other people...

Just go into the file

cgi-bin/tmpl/cms/edit_entry.html

look for the text string cols=""

and put a number you like in between the quotation marks.

For example, I changed it to cols="100", which worked great for me from Firefox. I think I had to change about 6 lines, maybe, in a similar way, for similar .tmpl files under .../tmpl/cms to completely solve the problem.

Thane Plambeck

(I couldn't contribute this information to a forum where the "Comments were Closed." Since the comments that were there were mostly useless rants about CSS, pointers to unrelated software, or other unhelpful information, I thought I would put my solution up here in case people are looking for it.)

Lensbaby

Jim used a gizmo from Lensbabies to take these cool haircut photos.