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Brief Life History Edit Improvement

Stephen C. Young
Stephen C. Young ✭✭
April 4, 2023 edited July 11, 2024 in Family Tree

When editing the Brief Life History only four lines of text are visible (see below). There seems to be enough room on the screen to make this edit window larger to include more lines of text, thereby assisting writers by seeing more context of the story they are writing.


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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 4, 2023 edited April 4, 2023

    See those little diagonal lines in the bottom square of the slider? They mean "grab here to change the box's size". The exact details are determined by your browser and OS; I get them in the bottom corner of the box, not on the slider, in both Firefox and Edge (in Windows 10).

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 4, 2023 edited April 4, 2023

    In Chrome, Windows 10, I get them in the corner as well.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 5, 2023 edited April 5, 2023

    Here is how it looks in Safari. It's been around for years and is a pretty standard browser text box feature:

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    Using it, this is the largest box I can get and still see the whole thing. I can make the box even larger but then have to scroll:

    Screenshot 2023-04-04 at 6.03.27 PM.png


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  • Jmanning0123
    Jmanning0123 ✭
    April 29, 2023

    I came here to submit the same issue. I see the feedback above about extending the box with the diagonal lines, which works for me, but I can't save that size so EVERY TIME I go to the edit box, I have to resize. It's annoying and time wasting. Thanks!

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 29, 2023

    No, you don't HAVE to resize every time. It will expand to fit what you input.

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