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WordPress’ TinyMCE Popup Width In Firefox

I’m surprised there isn’t much about this online.. although I admit my search wasn’t very comprehensive

Anyway, for a while now I’ve been a bit annoyed with the TinyMCE editor in WordPress.. for example, when you click the “Insert/edit link” button on the toolbar, a popup window is launched which proceeds to resize itself to be a less than useful width

Apparently according to one of the developers of TinyMCE in this thread, it’s down to Firefox using the status bar width when it shouldn’t

Anyway, the fix is as follows:

Just after the statements below in tiny_mce_popup.js

   // Netscape 7.1 workaround
   if (this.isWindow && tinyMCE.isNS71) {
      window.resizeBy(0, 10);
      return;
   }

Add the following:

   // Gecko workaround
   if (this.isWindow && tinyMCE.isGecko) {
      window.resizeBy(20, 10);
      return;
   }

That seems to work alright and resize the window to a useable width!

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8 Responses to “WordPress’ TinyMCE Popup Width In Firefox”

  1. Bramus! Says:
    September 12th, 2006 at 2:54 pm

    Found this by accident whilst searching for sth else, but still needing this handy workaround due to some clients at work asking to fix it ;)

    tnx!

  2. Greg Says:
    September 29th, 2006 at 12:32 pm

    For some reason this doesn’t work for me.
    The window opens at a reasonable size and then automatically shrinks to an unamanagable as soon as its finished loading.

    any ideas?

  3. Mark Says:
    September 29th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

    The pre-modified javascript is probably still cached - you should clear the browser cache and try again after making the modifications above

  4. Gaddman Says:
    December 17th, 2006 at 12:33 am

    Thanks, this helped me a lot.

  5. HM2K Says:
    January 20th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Hi mark,

    How’s it going? Long time no speak.

    Fantastic to solved this problem.

    Keep up the good work!

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  7. Senta Says:
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    YESSSS THANKS A LOT

    It’s work fine for me !
    Thank’s for help !

  8. Khairul Faizi Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 6:55 pm

    Work for me after I cleared the browser cache as suggested by Mark. Thanks for the tip

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