436816 - Make textbox of Find Toolbar resizeable

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060108 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060108 Minefield/3.0pre

As for textareas of fast search and urlbar, Find Toolbar textbox could be resizeable, to allow users to have more space for their search strings.

Someone can make this bug as depending on Bug 415687?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. press CONTRL+F
2. try to resize the find textbox
Actual Results:  
textbox can't be resized

Comment 1

[myles7897]

Marking as depending on Bug 415687

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Seems like a reasonable request, this could be done just like the urlbar-search-splitter, I think, where the splitter is invisible, so it doesn't add ui-bloat.

Comment 3

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Attachment: preliminary patch

I'm not going to work on this, but it does seem easy to implement.
What needs to be done: 
- the splitter element needs to be styled just as the one next to the urlbar.
- the element before and after the splitter need a persist="width" attribute (they will also need an id then).
- the elements after the splitter probably need to be wrapped in a container element, so that can then be the element that is resized. This screws up some code that iterates through childNodes, so that needs to be fixed then.