The problem with changing this to a textarea (which is what you seem to want) is that users can't just hit 'return' or 'enter' to submit, they will manually have to hit a button...
If you keep it as a text input, you are limited to just the one line. I played around with this when I was creating a chat replacement and eventually settled back on just the one line.
If you still want to do this, you might be able to change the standard width of the input by css in your template:
#input_chat_message {
width: 500px;
}
(for example).
If you want to go to a textarea, you will need to edit core files:
mod/chat/gui_header_js/chatinput.php
look for:
the input around line 137 (id=input_chat_message).
Change this to a textarea and see how it works...
If you keep it as a text input, you are limited to just the one line. I played around with this when I was creating a chat replacement and eventually settled back on just the one line.
If you still want to do this, you might be able to change the standard width of the input by css in your template:
#input_chat_message {
width: 500px;
}
(for example).
If you want to go to a textarea, you will need to edit core files:
mod/chat/gui_header_js/chatinput.php
look for:
the input around line 137 (id=input_chat_message).
Change this to a textarea and see how it works...