Forum search: Search in Forum and Search by Prefix are too small

[R33D3M33R]

If you take a look at the advanced search page, you can see that the boxes Search in Forum and Search by Prefix are tiny compared to the contents. They display 5 items at once, but the contents have 130+ and 70+ items. By adding resize: both into the CSS, the user can resize them freely. See images for more details.

forums_search_before.jpg

forums_search_after.jpg

[bapoumba]

Well, I suppose the idea is to have all the options available without having to scroll down too much. Not everyone has huge screen space,

[R33D3M33R]

But my idea is making the boxes resizable, nothing else would change ...

[R33D3M33R]

Bump. The code below is all you have to add to additional.css:

#forumchoice {
resize:both;
}
#prefixchoice {
resize:both;
}

[bapoumba]

Asked for some other admins input. Thanks for your patience

[R33D3M33R]

No problem .

[R33D3M33R]

I'm surprised that such a simple fix and a major usability improvement takes so long. At least someone could write: "No, we won't do it". and we could forget this thread ever existed ...

[bapoumba]

Well, I'm no css specialist and vBulletin templates are a nightmare I wont happily venture into. If you see the forums broken, cheer me up

[Elfy]

I'm surprised that such a simple fix and a major usability improvement takes so long. At least someone could write: "No, we won't do it". and we could forget this thread ever existed ...

It's not that we didn't want to do this, but in addition to

Well, I'm no css specialist and vBulletin templates are a nightmare I wont happily venture into. If you see the forums broken, cheer me up

this

We probably forgot about it somewhat.

Anyway - have a look now.

[Elfy]

Bump. The code below is all you have to add to additional.css:

#forumchoice {
resize:both;
}
#prefixchoice {
resize:both;
}

Thanks R33D3M33R - sorry it took a while.