the code do i post in the template css file or in the fireboard css file? or in the? please explain. and at what part in the middle at the begining or the end to i paste the code?
sorry for askingb this again but i didnt really understand the answers plural.
thanks
kam
www.globalfreq.net

To be honest, it's different for each template almost. Send me an e-mail and I'll see if I can answer your questions.

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I'm having the exact same problem, and none of the solutions here worked. My text box is just too tiny. This is starting to be very annoying, I didn't realize Fireboard had some many flaws. I never had this issues with phpBB.

The workaround didn't work for me either; however, I was able to edit a template to match my site. I would not call them "flaws" as much as it is hard to make something as complex as a forum system integrate perfectly into Joomla! Yes, PHPBB is a better all around forum, but it is alot harder to bring Joomla user info (user and password) together with PHPBB. It is simply a matter of how much work you want to do or want your users to do. You COULD set PHPBB wide open but then everyone would be guests. If you want some help customizing a template I could help you(I'm not gonna do it for you, that would defeat the purpose).

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I fixed the problem. Used firebug to see the actual name of the class, and it was "txtarea", not "fb_txtarea", so just changed that part and it works now. Hope this info is usefull to other people.

Which CSS file is it in? I thought I might as well ask before I went in and bothered finding it myself.

Yeah, it was the template.css and when I removed the prefix fb_ and just had .txtarea it fixed... (sigh...breath of relief)
Here is exactly what worked for me, I pasted it at the bottom of the template.css file in my templates folder of the template that was being used (default)

[code:1]

/* -------------------------------- fireboard stuff ------------------------------ */

table#fb_postmessage .fb_txtarea
{
width: 95%;
overflow: auto;
height: 300px;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

.txtarea
{
height: 300px;
width: 95%;
}[/code:1]

I'm using JAPurity... this is what worked for me:


I hope it helps someone.

And just to be clear, you put that in your template.css file in your JA Purity folder correct?

correct!

A good thing with doing things this way is that every time you reinstall a component you've customized CSS for, you don't have to change it again... as long as you keep your template css backed up and they don't change the CSS naming properties in the component.