Blogger: Bigger Post Edit Box

An annoying thing with Blogger is the tiny size of the input box for editing a post. When you write a post, the box is too narrow and too short and you have to scroll constantly. Blogger does not allow to change that size, however you can adapt it using augmented browsing, for example a Greasemonkey scripts. Here I explain how.

In my last article I introduced Greasemonkey and Platypus, Firefox add-ons, which allow to customize web pages on-the-fly and make the changes persistent. Here I assume you have Greasemonkey installed. In this article I show examples how you can adapt the size of the post edit box.

If you have Platypus installed (see last article), you can customize the edit box at your gusto using the mouse which doesn't take longer than several minutes. Just click one of the Platypus buttons at the toolbar, highlight the edit box by moving your mouse over it, click right, and choose change style, where you can increase the width and height of the edit box.

You can also download a Greasemonkey user script for increasing the size of the post edit box in Blogger from userscripts. You can find many more examples there, some many not work for blogger beta, though.

In the configuration menu of Greasemonkey, make sure that all variations of the URL are caught (use * for all, for example http://draft.blogger.com/post*).

In a next article, I will explain how to increase the size of the Blogger template box.