245527 - text input line turned into textarea

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[XFox]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040603
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a2) Gecko/20040603

The text line input in Chatzilla turned into a textarea (I think I dragged
something accidentally). As a result, ctrl+enter must be pressed in order to
send a message even if I try to resize it back down to a single line. And
hitting tab will remove focus from the textarea rather than it's previous
username autocompletion. I updated my Mozilla to today's nightly build and the
configuration was still "saved" in my profile, even though there's no such
option to toggle this in the Chatzilla section of the preferences.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag something above or around the text input of Chatzilla?
Actual Results:  
Text input became textarea. unreversable. Only solution is to destroy your
Mozilla profile, start over, and hope it never happens again.

Expected Results:  
Took me by surprise. I have no clue why thsi happened or if it's fixable.

In the "textarea" type mode, if you move the arrow to the right of the textarea
(before the end of the window. It's the margin in between), it's actually a
button. It's tooltip says "send this text (Ctrl+Enter)." It's as if this
nightmare was planned as a feature. But I'm stuck in between because there's no
option in the prefs to undo this.

Comment 1

[James Ross]

This is by design (except the bit below). You can revert to single-line mode
with Ctrl-Down Arrow, or click the button to the right of the input (below the
send button). You could also enter "/pref multiline false" in the box and hit
Ctrl-Enter.

The lack of images on the buttons to the right of the input (there's one there
normally that expands it, like the one to send and one the put it back again)
suggests you're using a badly done or outdated custom theme. Normally the
buttons have black arrows indicating what they do, but themes are allowed to
override these like any other part of the interface.