# Dashboard Form not sizing properly since update to 2.28

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [13 February 2021 12:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929 "2021-02-13T12:41:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![FatPilot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/fatpilot/32/38329_2.png) [@FatPilot](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/FatPilot)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 12:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/1 "2021-02-13T12:41:50Z")

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Hi everyone,  
I updated my dashboard to 2.28 and have noticed that I can't control the size of the form widget.  
It was working as expected before.  
The example shows a button 2x11  
The Form is 6x11  
It seems that whatever I do makes no difference.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/2/7/27bb2b159f9d407fe7985969e33e121be7abbaf7.png)

I have not seen any other issues.

Cheers.  
Paul.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 13:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/2 "2021-02-13T13:25:11Z")

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Have you cleared the browser cache and refreshed the page?

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**Author:** ![FatPilot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/fatpilot/32/38329_2.png) [@FatPilot](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/FatPilot)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 13:31 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/3 "2021-02-13T13:31:04Z")

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Hi Colin,  
yes Closed every thing pressed F5.  
I can't change the length, changing the width works.

Cheers.  
Paul.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 13:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/4 "2021-02-13T13:36:22Z")

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> [@FatPilot](#):
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> pressed F5

That is not the same as clearing the cache. Believe me, I spent two hours trying to get to the bottom of something once, reboots, refresh page etc, it wasn't until I went into the browser menus and cleared the cache that it went away. Though this problem does not sound like a cache problem, I agree.

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**Author:** ![FatPilot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/fatpilot/32/38329_2.png) [@FatPilot](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/FatPilot)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 13:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/5 "2021-02-13T13:38:46Z")

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Hi Colin, as I say I can change the width, other widgets behave as expected. Just can't change the length, seems fixed.

Cheers.  
Paul.

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**Author:** ![hotNipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hotnipi/32/383_2.png) [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 14:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/6 "2021-02-13T14:15:17Z")

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@FatPilot All correct, there is a bug. Investigation started.

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**Author:** ![hotNipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hotnipi/32/383_2.png) [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 15:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/7 "2021-02-13T15:26:29Z")

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@FatPilot Can you remember what was the previous version of dashboard before you updated to 2.28

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**Author:** ![FatPilot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/fatpilot/32/38329_2.png) [@FatPilot](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/FatPilot)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 15:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/8 "2021-02-13T15:58:21Z")

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@hotNipi I'm afraid I can't.  
This is installed on Pi, would there be any log files for me to check?  
Cheers.

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**Author:** ![hotNipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hotnipi/32/383_2.png) [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 16:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/9 "2021-02-13T16:04:58Z")

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No it is not that important. I was just curios because of I understood that you were able to set ui\_form vertical size from configuration page to be as you like but not forced to be with size the form node needs due the count of internal input elements.  
I can get that info from git history anyway.

Cos I can say it is that way many many versions already...  
And I proposed to change that to be user choice but only if widget requires less space than the user wants to give.

Overall the fix is figured out already. (I can't answer the when it will be available questions.)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/4/8/48e53e61cda43404270ffa82b886112d8bbf5245.png)

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**Author:** ![FatPilot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/fatpilot/32/38329_2.png) [@FatPilot](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/FatPilot)\
**Post date:** [13 February 2021 16:09 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/10 "2021-02-13T16:09:36Z")

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@hotNipi, Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [27 February 2021 16:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/dashboard-form-not-sizing-properly-since-update-to-2-28/40929/11 "2021-02-27T16:10:18Z")

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