[BUG] EditTextWidget inserts extra space below content

[twMat]

Describe the bug

The EditTextWidget occasionally inserts extra space below its text. The height of the extra space seems proportional to the height of the text.

It's been like this for a long time, probably several years, but I couldn't quite reproduce it. The following instruction seems to reproduce it consistently, at least for me. see below.

Expected behavior

Shrink vertically to fit text (assuming the text is taller than the default empty editor)

To Reproduce

1. Go to this wiki
2. Note the table (never mind gibberish in it) and the editwidgets. (For me) they appear properly vertically sized when the wiki is loaded.
3. Open edit mode... and close again.
4. Now note how some of the editwidgets now have inserted a lot of empty space beneath their texst!

Screenshots

TiddlyWiki Configuration

• v5.3.3 but also earlier

• TiddlyHost and local

• Win 11

• Brave latest

Additional context

No response

[pmario]

Put the STYLE definition at the top of the tiddler, then everything works.

The edit-text widget calculates the needed height with the default width and sets a "hardcoded" height. Then the style definition sets the width to 100%. So the height is wrong.

If the style is set in a tiddler tagged $:/tags/Stylesheet or the STYLE tag comes before the height is calculated, everything is fine.

[twMat]

@pmario - Oh, that does avoid the problem. Thank you!

However, that circumvention is not obvious and I'd say it is common practice to put styleblocks at bottom of tiddlers, even if it is not "the proper way" (as noted, I've had the problem for years and I even find it on tiddlywiki.com ) - so maybe the current implementation for setting the editor height is not a good one? With that said... I'd be surprised if anyone would ever resolve this; so I'm closing it.

[Jermolene]

Hi @twMat I'm inclined to keep this open, it is a clear description of a definite problem with the autoresize code, and it would be nice to fix it.