here is what i suggest to the phpBB Dev Team, set a width (as a percentage) on the element through css or an attribute
Posted by SHS` (Consultant) on Oct 22nd 2006, 23:11
I suggested a fix to compact the listings in bug #1630, though Meik omitted this. So it's up to him if he wants to make the one last change.
Posted by dhn (Former Team Member) on Oct 26th 2006, 13:03
Jon: IE6 does not support title tags on <option>. So this won't work and there is no easy fix for this unless we do some javascript trickery which I really don't like.
IE7 supports it, so I will put this as Review Later and perhaps we'll see whether it catches on enough to do this change before the release.
Note: I want to display at least 40 characters of the full string and cut it off after that. This should be enough for mist timezones but the longest ones, which will be available through the tooltip.
Posted by Acyd Burn (Server Manager) on Oct 29th 2006, 11:31
There is already a function to trim/cut the values, though it would be better if it gets truncated within the language file, just not writing so much... too much.
This also happens on the edit signature page. The signature text box stretches out the page in a similar fashion and shrinks the left side menu.
Alternatively the compose private message page has the left menu stretched out by the "Sent to" portion. "Add [to]" and "Add [bcc]" seem to be off a bit, and the username text boxes are pretty long.