[Companion] search text box size

[Brian Erst]

I tried mucking around with the CSS in order to make the search box a
little shorter (giving it more of the IE toolbar feel), but didn't have
a lot of luck.

No matter what I did inside the CSS, the search box simply would not
budge. Not completely sure why - I looked at the CSS for Firefox and
didn't see a lot of "!important" flags, so I should have been able to
override the margins or height, but no such luck.

For whatever reason, this one's a lot harder than the fix for
horizontal orientation on buttons. I'll try to look into it a little
further soon, but I just became a dad for the third time last week, and
my time is a little thin right now.

--- Brian <mozdev at bkennelly.net> wrote:

> Steve Hampton wrote:
> 
> >   I am currently running the alpha build (which is working just
> fine) but have
> >a cosmetic issue that I would like to address. The text box for the
> search
> >field tends to be taller than other text boxes on the toolbars. I
> would like to
> >make that text box shorter in size so that the toolbar's overall
> footprint
> >would be smaller. 
> >
> Actually, with the default Firefox theme, the Companion toolbar 
> is only one pixel taller than the bookmark toolbar with the 
> alpha build (27px vs. 26px).  For comparison, the Googlebar is 
> 28px.
> 
> The text box itself is only 23px high vs 25px for the buttons, 
> so you might want to look at the buttons first.
> 
> >I know how to change the width but not the height. Is there
> >something in the user-chrome or user-content files that will allow
> me to change
> >that?
> >  
> >
> You can change the settings in yahootoolbar.css in the jar file. 
>   Let the list know how it turns out.
> 
> >   Thanks for the work. Now, if we could just get Yahoo to let all
> of the
> >Launch stuff to work with Firefox.....
> >  
> >
> It works in Netscape 7.1 and 7.2, so it can be done, but I don't 
> think there is a "good" version of the ActiveX plugin available 
> for Firefox.  You might start with 
> <http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm>.
> 
> I have tried to convince Yahoo to switch from the ActiveX 
> control to a plugin or Java applet, but they are not interested. 
>   If they get enough requests, they might start to listen.
> 
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