TinyMCE width and height disobedient!

Question

According to the (conflicting) documentation of TinyMCE, the editor takes on the size of the textarea (or other) element that it replaces. It also says that you can set the

Answer 1

I found the TinyMCE text-area (called '.mceContentBody' in my theme) too small and awkwardly margined in the new post content area. In my theme there's a css file called editor-style. I changed the width (to 98%) yet since TinyMCE uses cookies to remember the editor size, the CSS changes weren't sticking. After CLEARING MY BROWSER'S CACHE, the CSS width/margin changes took effect. Finally. Gah.