The size of the HTML widget

[MartinMap]

What is the bug or the crash?

The height of the HTML widget takes up significantly more space than necessary. It seems to exponentially increase in size with each additional character. No scrollbars are added.

Smalles form size with html-widget using small text:

...using more text:

And here a small Test-Project: htmlWidget-test.zip

A small video showing the problem htmlWidget-test.avi

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Go to Layer Properties.
2. Click on the Forms tab
3. Select the HTML widget
4. Enter some text into the widget
5. Check the form in the QGIS Canvas
6. Add more text and check again

Versions

• QGIS 3.22
• QGIS 3.28
• QGIS 3.30 Windows10 und Mint 21.1 Vera

Supported QGIS version

• [X] I'm running a supported QGIS version according to the roadmap.

New profile

• [X] I tried with a new QGIS profile

Additional context

No response

[andreasneumann]

@MartinMap - is this only for the height or also for the width?

Is it growing "forever" or stopping? Are scrollbars added?

Could you please share a small project demonstrating the issue?

The likelihood to get things fixed grows when you submit a simple project.

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[MartinMap]

@MartinMap - is this only for the height or also for the width?

Is it growing "forever" or stopping? Are scrollbars added?

Could you please share a small project demonstrating the issue?

The likelihood to get things fixed grows when you submit a simple project.

I have included all additional information related to my issue, including a video and a demo project.

[mki-c2c]

I was able to reproduce the same bug with QGIS 3.28

the whitespace in the HTML box seems to increase with every space.

As a workaround, you can use   and the size of the box does not increase :-(

[johnzet39]

I confirm. Each space increases the height of body of the HTMLWidget.

[johnzet39]

This is not only a space, but also, for example, a slash. The characters used to break the line. And it looks like the widget presets its size in case of future line breaks.