diff --git a/mail/templates/mobile/compose.xet b/mail/templates/mobile/compose.xet
index 8116a3cc52..a9b136a46c 100644
--- a/mail/templates/mobile/compose.xet
+++ b/mail/templates/mobile/compose.xet
@@ -90,14 +90,14 @@
 				<htmlarea span="all" name="mail_htmltext" id="mail_htmltext" statusbar="false" menubar="false" mode="simple" imageUpload="link_to"  height="478px" width="100%" resize_ratio="0"/>
 			</hbox>
 			<hbox disabled="@is_html" class="mailComposeBody mailComposeTextContainer">
-				<textbox multiline="true" rows="40" cols="120" width="100%" span="all" no_lang="1" name="mail_plaintext" id="mail_plaintext" resize_ratio="1"/>
+				<textbox multiline="true" rows="40" cols="120" width="100%" span="all" height="100%" no_lang="1" name="mail_plaintext" id="mail_plaintext" resize_ratio="0"/>
 			</hbox>
 			<vbox class="et2_file mailUploadSection" disabled="@no_griddata">
-				<hbox>
+				<vbox>
 					<select id="filemode" label="Send files as" onchange="app.mail.check_sharing_filemode"/>
 					<date id="expiration" label="Expiration" blur="EPL only" data_format="Y-m-d"/>
 					<passwd id="password" blur="password protect" statustext="Only makes sense, if you transport password through a different channel / outside of this mail to recipients!"/>
-				</hbox>
+				</vbox>
 				<grid id="attachments" width="100%" maxheight="165" class="egwGridView_grid" resize_ratio="0">
 					<columns>
 						<column disabled="!@showtempname" width="10%"/>