diff --git a/plugins/phorum/config.default.php b/plugins/phorum/config.default.php
index 4dc0adaa..2f9031cc 100644
--- a/plugins/phorum/config.default.php
+++ b/plugins/phorum/config.default.php
@@ -4,18 +4,47 @@ if(!defined("PHORUM")) exit;
 
 // default HTML Purifier configuration settings
 $config->set('HTML', 'Allowed',
-  // definitely needed
-  'a[href|title],blockquote[cite],b,pre,i,p,'.
-  // common semantic markup
-  'del,ins,strong,em,'.
-  // commmon presentational markup
-  's,strike,sub,sup,u,br,tt,div[class],img[src|alt|title|class],'. // div because bbcode [quote] uses it, img for smileys
-  // uncommon semantic markup
-  'abbr[title],acronym[title],caption,code,dfn,cite,kbd,var,'.
-  // lists
-  'dd,dl,dt,ul,li,ol,'.
-  // tables
-  'table,tr,tbody,thead,tfoot,td,th');
+  // alphabetically sorted
+'a[href|title]
+abbr[title]
+acronym[title]
+b
+blockquote[cite]
+br
+caption
+cite
+code
+dd
+del
+dfn
+div
+dl
+dt
+em
+i
+img[src|alt|title|class]
+ins
+kbd
+li
+ol
+p
+pre
+s
+strike
+strong
+sub
+sup
+table
+tbody
+td
+tfoot
+th
+thead
+tr
+tt
+u
+ul
+var');
 $config->set('AutoFormat', 'AutoParagraph', true);
 $config->set('AutoFormat', 'Linkify', true);
 $config->set('HTML', 'Doctype', 'XHTML 1.0 Transitional');
diff --git a/plugins/phorum/settings.php b/plugins/phorum/settings.php
index 552d5248..7f77f3ac 100644
--- a/plugins/phorum/settings.php
+++ b/plugins/phorum/settings.php
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ if ($config_exists) {
     
     require_once 'HTMLPurifier/Printer/ConfigForm.php';
     $htmlpurifier_form = new HTMLPurifier_Printer_ConfigForm('config', 'http://htmlpurifier.org/live/configdoc/plain.html#%s');
+    $htmlpurifier_form->setTextareaDimensions(23, 7); // widen a little, since we have space
+    
     $frm->addMessage($htmlpurifier_form->render($config, $directives, false));
 
     $frm->addMessage($warning);