Change the fixed heigth of the box, filled with checkboxes named 'category'

Hi Fruchtgummi,

Can you please share the url of your site so we can help?

Best!
Steve

Fruchtgummi:

Are you referring to a page on your site, a page under the Atahualpa options, or a different page in the admin dashboard?

thanks for your quick reaktion,

I referr to a page in admin-mode while I create or edit a text. There I have the possibility to click some check-boxes to identify the categories of the text:
=> New Post – “category / all categories”
=> Change existing Post – “category / all categories”
AND
=> Quickedit – a Dropdown (actual 7 checkboxes)

This box should be higher to get a better view. I’m using actually 45 categories and perhaps I have to create some new. 8 checkboxes are to less.

Any further information needed?
Thanks

Babyfaceweb,

sorry – its internal, no external access possible
??

OK, just about everything in the admin area is the domain of WordPress and not the theme, so the post and page editors will look and act the same across any theme. The exceptions are any individual settings pages for the theme or plugin.

However, most people don’t realize that they can change the look of the admin area, and not just the site, with a CSS plugin like Custom CSS Manager. The body element of admin pages will have a class of wp-admin, so it makes it possible to write CSS rules which target just admin elements.

The All Categories list that appears when you are editing a single post has a min-height property set to 42px and a max-height property set to 200px, and so you can change the dimensions with this rule:

.wp-admin #category-all {
   min-height: 200px;
   max-height: 400px;
}

This should double the height of the categories list.

For the All Posts page, when you do a Quick Edit, you can add this rule to change the height of the Categories list:

.wp-admin ul.cat-checklist {
   height: 24em;
}

The current value is 12em, so setting the height to 24em would double the height of the list.

Hope that helps.

G R E A T ??

Thats the solution I wanted.
I made a decision for 650px and 30em.

Thank you very much
fruchtgummi

/* Heigth for Kategorie-Box (twice 400px / three times 600px) */
.wp-admin #category-all {
   min-height: 200px;
   max-height: 650px;
}

/* Heigth for Quick-Edit - double = 24em*/
.wp-admin ul.cat-checklist {
   height: 30em;
}

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