First Steps - Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management - page 71

If our intention had been to enter data for more topics after these two, we would
have selected Insert another new row from the first drop-down before clicking
on Go .
Data entry panel tuning for CHAR and
VARCHAR
By default, phpMyAdmin displays an input field on a single line for the field
types, CHAR and VARCHAR . This is controlled by setting $cfg['CharEditing'] to
'input' . Sometimes, we may want to insert line breaks (new lines) within the
field. (This insertion might be done manually with the Enter key, or by copying and
pasting lines of text from another on screen source.) This can be done by changing
$cfg['CharEditing'] to 'textarea' . This is a global setting, and will apply to all
the fields of all the tables, for all users of this copy of phpMyAdmin.
We can tune the number of columns and rows of this text area with:
$cfg['CharTextareaCols'] = 40;
$cfg['CharTextareaRows'] = 2;