Replying to comments from WP-Admin creates a text box the size of the comment to which one replies

[Ipstenu]

What happens/How to reproduce:

At wp-admin/edit-comments.php if you reply to a comment, the text-box size for your reply is the same size as the comment to which you are replying, which means if it's a very large comment, you get a similarly very large reply box.

What was expected:

Some sort of standard size (10 rows maybe?) would be better.

How long has this been going on?

Tested and this is a regression. Sorry. Worked up until 3.3

(Apologize to @nacin for not remembering to do this ... ages ago).

[SergeyBiryukov]

Introduced in [18576], where setting the height for #replycontent was moved out of the a == 'edit' condition. Also modified in [18803].

[dd32]

@azaozz do you remember what case that was moved for?

[azaozz]

do you remember what case that was moved for?

As far as I remember, it was a users request (or a ticket?) but can't remember exactly, sorry.

In 25746.2.patch:

• Resize the Quick Edit textarea only when editing a longer comment.
• Limit the maximum height to 500px to make it more manageable for very long comments. Now in all newer browsers the users can adjust it if desired.

[azaozz]

In 26550:

Comments moderation screen:

• Don't resize the textarea when replying to long comments.
• Limit the resizing of the textarea when quick-editing long comments to 500px.

Props SergeyBiryukov, fixes #25746.