title: Gmail Text areas and Firefox
link: http://jj.isgeek.net/2007/04/gmail-text-areas-and-firefox/
author: Jj
description: 
post_id: 315
date: 2007/04/26 23:06:33
created_gmt: 2007/04/27 04:06:33
comment_status: open
slug: gmail-text-areas-and-firefox

I was never too confortable with Gmail's text areas for composing mails, I felt I had to fit my email in that tiny box with those thin letters. 

![Gmail compose text area - Arial](https://bm.isgeek.net/5c/48/44a597c28ae30576a572318cfb17326fbde5605a01e0378aed305ae60699.jpg)

So, what I wanted was, a bigger text area, more lines and monospaced font, so it looks neater :). So I recalled my `userContent.css` file, so ahead I went and changed it. For that I made use of [Firefox's Dom Inspector](http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/) and found that all the composing text areas had IDs "ta_0", "ta_1", and so on, depending on with <textarea> it was. But they were all id="ta_", so hack on:
    
    
    
    
    
    
    /* Sazonar al gusto */
    
    
    
    
    textarea[id^="ta_"] {
    
    
    
    
        height: 40em !important;
    
    
    
    
        font-size: 12px !important;
    
    
    
    
        font-family: monospace !important;
    
    
    
    
    }
    
    
    
    
    

As simple as that, I restarted Firefox, and There it was :)

![Gmail compose text area - Monospace](https://bm.isgeek.net/54/e7/f9e327c0c461e5011275e3ce10395c1d0ebb904c0be664b67a8c09e9c885.jpg)

The are side effects though :roll::

![Gmail reply text area](https://bm.isgeek.net/46/06/e1304e0fd4bf95633c402b8ab42a4af03bf32d137e7cc4066ce3ad1dbe31.jpg)

But I can live with it :D.

## Comments

**[haitham](#176087 "2008-06-20 14:12:07"):** thaaaaaaanks

