Hi,

I don't seem to find the answer in the forum so I will ask the question.

I'm doing a template override of itemform.php in order to customise it for fron end article submission. In the K2 global settings, advanced tab, I have selected “Use one editor window for introtext & fulltext” = No. Which means I have two text areas, one for the Introtext and another one for the full text. So far, so good.

My issue is that for the Introtext I only will allow users to write a few words, so the text area is far too big. The problem is that its size is not controlled by CSS but by the element style.

In itemform.php the introtext text area is called by:
And the HTML output is:
And I would like the HTML output to be:
In which file can I change this?
(please note that the fulltext text area is fine, the change is only for the introtext text area)

Many thanks!

Hi Daniel,

For something like this you can always use NoNumber ReReplacer to perform a search & replace:
extensions.joomla.org/extension/rereplacer

I hope this helps,

Joe Campbell

Hello,

You can control the textarea with css.
Even if there are hardcoded values you can use min/max-height attributes.
The same goes for the textarea's width.

Thank you guys.

Joseph, really liked your out of the box thinking, appreciate the suggestion.

Krikor, perfect solution, max-height worked like a charm.

Cheers!

It would be cool if K2 offered Admin Customization parameters:

- Tabs (visibility): Content, Image, Image Gallery, Media, Extra Fields, Attachments
- Introtext (remove, size)
- Author publishing status (visibility, active state)
- Metadata Information (visibility, active state)
- Item view options in category listings (visibility, active state)
- Item view options (visibility, active state)

Overall it would allow for a more simplified UI, which is ideal for productivity (developers, site admin, clients).

Plugin developers this could be an opportunity for you :)

These actually can all be tweaked with a template override.
Finally you can enable/ disable most of these items from K2' parameters.

However I do think that a custom plugin might be really useful.

I ended up hacking the following file:
administrator/components/com_k2/views/items/tmpl/default.php

So now when I go to edit an item, I am presented with only 2 centered tabs (in the following order): Extra Fields & Content.

Best of all, it defaults to the Extra Fields tab which is a time saver. I set my site up where as 85% of the content/data for any given item is stored as an Extra Field (list & item image, title tag, schema, video, gallery, etc.)