Third-Party Goodness
Have you ever found a text form field just too small on a webpage? Do you blame spell-check for ruining your ability to spell words correctly without one? Third-party software might be the answer.
A few days ago, one of our forum members asked me about increasing the size of the description field.
“When creating consulting invoices for my customers, I like to enter my notes in the Description field of the invoice. This works great and is a nice feature for my customers. However, I was curious if there is a way to make this field a bit larger?”
After reading his forum post, I remembered a cool third-party tool for Firefox that would allow you to resize any textarea form (thanks Wesvt). Check out this screenshot.

If you are as dependent on spell check as I am, you’ll also find Google’s new toolbar very helpful. Check out this screenshot.

This is a great tool for those of you who find yourselves copying and pasting text into Microsoft Word or any other spell-checking capable word processor.
While we typically don’t recommend third party software with FreshBooks, you are welcome to try them out if you are feeling adventurous. However, with all third party applications, please use at your own risk.
If you know any other cool third-party browser tools that might be great to use with FreshBooks add a comment to this post here.











8:24 pm
Great plug-in but it is not compatible with the latest version 2 of Firefox. This version of Firefox also ironically per the post also has a built in spell checker for all form or posting fields without the need for a plugin for those interested- http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features.html
10:59 am
Thanks for tip Ryan.
We actually have multiple versions of FireFox around our office for testing so I was running an older version. I just updated to version 2. Firefox2 was smart enough to realize that my old version was incompatible and offered to update it for me.
You can use this version for Firefox2 which also does select boxes and input fields as well!
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3694/
5:37 pm
For those on OSX, Safari 3 also has draggable text input boxes.
6:26 pm
Or since you are using jquery, take a look at this post:
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/TextAreaResizer