I’d also like to point out that for your first example, it’s good to give a CSS fallback with the :focus pseudo-class. We will always help you! In my contact form I always get form fields with the hight of one row. One standard license is valid only for 1 project.

CodePen is a place to experiment, debug, and show off your HTML, CSS, and You can add this “25/” to all or any specific fields of your contact form. Answers to questions on the topic 'edit contact form 7 textarea size' on Royal WordPress Support Forum contains 8 replies. Now you can use height and width property to provide a fixed height and width to the element.

The contact form 7 text area is for a multi-line input and accept any form of text and by default, the size of the text area is far bigger than that of the text field. The background image stays removed if there is text within the textarea. Wouldn’t my previous comment looked better if you’d have left the default behavior of this tag un-modified? Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. You can check out how I use contact form 7 plugin on my wordpress sites.

As mentioned, this should not be done…. I think its going to be a case of experimenting with these examples and seeing how I get on. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Change width and height of contact form 7 message area. *May or may not contain any actual "CSS" Great information, and detail! Me neither. enjoy getting tips focused on just one element. The documentation of contact form 7 gives the ability for (cols)x(rows). Each element in the form has a proper ID and CSS class associated with it. Well, I’m not sure what went wrong. One problem I’m having though is that I cannot get text to start at the top of a text-area box. Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time. Here is a collection of nine things you might want to do related to textareas. Cheers for “resize: none;” wasn’t actually aware of this :), Instead of: Nice. How many quirks you posses.

Step 1: Log in to your wp-admin; First of all log in to your site’s wp-admin, install the contact form 7 and create a Form if not already did. For the rude parts: .text {background-color:#FFF;color:#000;} Great article Chris! That should be definitely bookmarked. Greets, jQuery, thats for sure, and I think using this piece of code :), Some of this “tricks” are quite useful, others are not…, 1.a is nice, 1.b (removing the background on focus) can be done with textarea:focus {} background.image: none } no JS required ;), 4. How do I change the width and height of the message field?

Good stuff Chris, but just one thing: Firefox 3.6 doesn’t put any blue glow on textareas when in focus. This simple CSS code disables resizing of the element. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Step 2: Open the Contact Form to Edit; Click Edit and the form editor will open where you can edit your contact form. Thanks.

For the text area field I would like to change it to several rows. CSS-Tricks is hosted by Flywheel, the best WordPress hosting in the var test = document.createElement(element); $el[0].value And one more thing… The tag is a inline tag for a reason!

The id attribute is needed to associate the text area with a label. Hope this helps someone else.

( Log Out /  In this tutorial I will show you how to make HTML textarea element fixed size. This is my personal blog where I write about programming and technologies that I learn and feel interesting to share. i was facing this problem since a week … finally i found solution hear i appreciate your work …. Here on CSS-Tricks.com there’s been several articles about it and version after version this was the final result: A whole lot better in my opinion and the end-result for the user and email client is about the same. REMINDER: The blue glow is becoming a strong standard and breaking that standard is typically a bad thing for your users. What you did is you told jQuery to take this object ($(this)), put it in a jQuery collection, access the first element of that collection ($(this)[0]) and then access the value attribute of that object ($(this)[0].value), instead of simply accessing the attribute directly (this.value), without involving jQuery into this! I guess you are using these tricks on css tricks too ^^. ( Log Out /  I help business owners to grow their businesses online. If you want your text boxes to be a little smaller or a little larger then you can use “20/” or “30/” respectively. don’t hesitate to tell about this! Thanks! I realize that the following implementation isn’t ideal — it should probably make use of an array of elements to keep the code as DRY as possible — but it’s a good start. @5: Many people try removing the resize box as sometimes, resizing ruins the layout of the design. // console.log($el.text(), "value: " + $el.attr("val")); In a standard word press theme it works but how can I recieve this under […] return true;