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I want to be able to change the width of the text area in the questions form in a flexible way i.e. depending on the resolution of the display monitor = available width of the content area.

I have found a way to change the width in a fixed way by modifying the lines 67-68 of the file function.default_form.php from

$smarty->assign('input_question',
  $this->CreateTextArea(false,$id,'','input_question'));

to

$textareawidt = 50;
$smarty->assign('input_question',
  $this->CreateTextArea(false,$id,'','input_question','','','','',$textareawidt));

I have set the width to a fixed value of 50 columns. This is based on the position of the parameter width in the definition of the function CreateTextArea in class.module.inc.php in which a preset value of 80 columns is used.

Is there any way to set the value of the variable $textareawidt? Is there any Smarty or CMS variable available that I could use to set this width?

I think the easier way would be to style the width via CSS - you have only to add a class or id in template file .

But how with CSS in this case???

Make a look at the html source and find out if the textarea has an id (for instance "example").

Then you can use
to format it.

There is no ID for the module-generated textarea.

But cascade from parent works fine: