Change Column Width

[omega4711]

Hello,

i'm fairly new to SMF and quite a noob, but at the same time experienced in finding the code snippets i need to change my themes on the net. But what i could not find was the place where i can change the column width of the forum index. I looked trough all the template files numerous times, and searched the forum and google, but without any luck.

The reason i want to change the relative width is to integrate the forum seamlessly with Joomla.

Any help would be appreciated!

Greetings,

omega

[Deaks]

What collumn do you wish to change?

the ones shown on the main page are found in boardindex.template

[omega4711]

I am sorry that i didn't answer for a long time - i move to another place so i was quite busy 

I made a screenshot how i want to change the layout:

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I already searched the boardindex.template, but obviously i'm not good enough to find the relevant lines - i really feel dumb right now 

[omega4711]

After 5 hours of countless edit attempts, i really can't go on with this. Help anyone ?

[codenaught]

Ok, the instructions many vary for your template.

But see if you can find the same code in Themes/<theme_name>/BoardIndex.template.php:

Find:

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<td ' , !empty($board['children']) ? 'rowspan="2"' : '' , ' class="windowbg" width="6%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=unread;board=', $board['id'], '.0">';

Change the valign="top" to valign="middle" so it becomes:

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<td ' , !empty($board['children']) ? 'rowspan="2"' : '' , ' class="windowbg" width="6%" align="center" valign="middle"><a href="', $scripturl, '?action=unread;board=', $board['id'], '.0">';

Then if you want to descrease the width of the main board name / board description column, you can find and edit:

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<td class="windowbg2">
<b><a href="', $board['href'], '" name="b', $board['id'], '">', $board['name'], '</a></b><br />

And add a width="" attribute so that it is a smaller width than it currently is.

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<td class="windowbg2" width="30%">
<b><a href="', $board['href'], '" name="b', $board['id'], '">', $board['name'], '</a></b><br />

You may also want to adjust the width for the Posts / Topics column:

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<td class="windowbg" valign="middle" align="center" style="width: 12ex;"><span class="smalltext">

And then for the last post column:

Find:

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<td class="windowbg2" valign="middle" width="22%">

Change the 22% in that to a bigger width.

[omega4711]

you rock, dear sir !

worked like a charm.

My error was that i looked for width attributes where there were none, instead of adding them like you instructed.

Thanks!

[ajaaskel]

I guess something is changed because I can't find those definitions in "BoardIndex.template.php".  How is adjustment of column width for each column on the main page done with SMF v2.0.9 ?

Edit:
I actually found a solution for some of the rightmost columns in this thread:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=478055.msg3344703#msg3344703

However, there is another related problem: 
The message header is truncated early in the rightmost column.  That is something I'd really like to fix.  Please see the attached screenprint below: