Rich Text Editor (rte) - Needs to expand input text field of the richtext

[Former Community Member]

I have a requirement to expand the input text field of richtext if the component dialog window expands. Currently the input text field is expanding horizontally if we expand components dialog but is not expanding vertically but it is adding scroll bar if author tries to give more input.

Please check the attached screenshot for better understanding.

Kindly help me with your suggestions on achieving the same.

Many Thanks in Advance.

[trench999 · Accepted solution]

I confirmed with the Adobe community leaders last week that this is the nature of the ExtJS widget used for RTE.  There is no known solution without building a new widget.  We have the same exact concern across our components.

[rasivasu]

trench999 wrote...

I confirmed with the Adobe community leaders last week that this is the nature of the ExtJS widget used for RTE.  There is no known solution without building a new widget.  We have the same exact concern across our components.

Would you please let me know how to get in touch with Adobe Community Leaders?  Would you also let me know how to create a new widget that addresses the concern?

[smacdonald2008]

Adobe community leaders are always monitoring this forum. There are many like Sham, Justin, Yoerg, etc.  

To create a new component as Mark suggests - you need to build a component that uses a custom xtype and program at the widget API level using this API:

http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/widgets-api/index.html?class=CQ.form.RichText

Look at the Hero sample component - you can download it from this article:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-aem-multifield-components.html

download it and deploy using package manager. Look at the example xtype it uses. This will point you in the right direction. 

[trench999]

Most, if not all, are active on these forums.  smacdonald2008 is a good resource.  Widget development is a common AEM convention.  Here is a community post on the subject:https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/creating-custom-xtype.html

[kennyhank]

I'm trying to grow the height of the richtext too, if someone find a solution please post it.

In adition I found a bug in the Paste pluggins on richText, when the float window closes by close button, doesn't create the window more. With the property (closeAction: "hide") resolved the bug. Please report this to the community leaders.

Thanks.

[Marc_ERUIMY]

I found this post which worked for me : http://aempodcast.com/2015/rich-text-editor/rich-text-editor-dialog-height-resize-aem/#.Vh6hgfntmko

[kennyhank]

Thanks man..........that's a very good post!........