# Profile About Me has weird Height

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [11월 3, 2018, 1:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204 "2018-11-03T13:07:26Z")
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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [11월 3, 2018, 1:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204/1 "2018-11-03T13:07:27Z")

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The About Me textarea has a weird height to it, that makes a scrollbar appear when only a couple of lines are entered, but double that is shown as space for entering the text.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/c/ccb86f54cee5dd153785512dc1f8737fdb2ab57e.png)

I used the following custom CSS on our site regarding it.

```plaintext
.user-preferences-page .user-preferences textarea { height: 11em };

```

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/1/e12c2521b8f5ef232102e8ddd74a21d987b1e26e.png)

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### Author: ![Kankuro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/kankuro/32/123065_2.png) [@Kankuro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Kankuro)
#### Post date: [11월 3, 2018, 1:09오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204/2 "2018-11-03T13:09:32Z")

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I’d set it to 100% personally. That way if the container box changes size, it won’t need to be changed as well.

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [11월 3, 2018, 1:10오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204/3 "2018-11-03T13:10:46Z")

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For some reason that doesn’t work and makes it even smaller. Because I don’t have time to look into why, I went with something that would get me around it for now.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 3, 2018, 7:57오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204/4 "2018-11-03T19:57:19Z")

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Sure any thoughts on this @awesomerobot?

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [11월 8, 2018, 5:03오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204/6 "2018-11-08T17:03:28Z")

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This is now fixed as of:  
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b39d949a8eb5a9c70c33adbe17eb4f8b8e1e02ef](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b39d949a8eb5a9c70c33adbe17eb4f8b8e1e02ef)

thanks @cpradio

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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [11월 9, 2018, 11:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/profile-about-me-has-weird-height/101204/7 "2018-11-09T23:00:05Z")

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