As we have discussed before, JIRA ships with some predefined custom field types. One such commonly used type is the Text Area
field.
The Text Area
field has a predefined width and height, which is not customizable. It is often a requirement of JIRA users to increase the size of the field, either globally, or for a particular custom field.
Just like any other custom fields, the Text Area
field is also rendered using velocity templates. From the system-customfieldtypes-plugin.xml
file, we can find out that the location of the edit template is templates/plugins/fields/edit/edit-textarea.vm
:
<customfield-type key="textarea" name="Text Field (multi-line)" ............................................ <resource type="velocity" name="edit" location="templates/plugins/ fields/edit/edit-textarea.vm"/> ................................... </customfield-type>
If we need to increase the size...