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Started by Lady Night Owl, November 13, 2008, 07:27:16 PM

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Lady Night Owl

The height seems to be screwy. Is this changeable in the style sheet - if not, where?

Thanks in advance.
Running SMF 2.0.1

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Lady Night Owl

#2
It's a custom theme based on CORE. But, I just checked the default and it looks the same, so maybe it's the height of the cell that needs to be adjusted? I just can't find it in the style sheet.
Running SMF 2.0.1

Bulakbol

It is because MessageIndex.template.php uses "<p>" instead of "<td>" to display child-board names.
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Antechinus

And I'll be converting all my themes straight back to <td> for stability. I think the use of <p> was a mistake (particularly in BoardIndex.template.php).


Lady Night Owl

Quote from: JohnyB on November 18, 2008, 12:35:54 AM
It is because MessageIndex.template.php uses "<p>" instead of "<td>" to display child-board names.

Oh ok. So would I hurt anything if I changed the <p>'s to <td>'s ?

Quote from: votrungtruong on November 18, 2008, 01:28:44 AM
test

???
Running SMF 2.0.1

Antechinus

I've done it and it doesn't seem to hurt anything, although you may need to play with css classes. Then again, if you're doing a custom theme anyway I imagine you'll be mangling the templates beyond recognition (I sure do) so what's a bit of extra css?

Lady Night Owl

The theme didn't change much from the CORE template/style sheet - it's just different colors, buttons & background really. I'll give it whirl see what happens. Thanks guys!
Running SMF 2.0.1

Antechinus

#9
If that <p> class is listed separately in style.css you could just change the top padding. If it isn't listed you could add it to the css.

Note that for SMF 2 it will not be in the ordinary style.css file. It will be in forum.css under the css folder.
Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that before. I just go ahead and reconstruct the whole template anyway, but that's me.

Lady Night Owl

Thanks, I'll comb through the file and see what I can do <inserts crossed eyes emote here>

Yeah, I'll leave the reconstruction up to you :P as I'm not confident enough in my CSS skills to go and mess around like that. ;)
Running SMF 2.0.1

Lady Night Owl

#11
:( I'm experiencing technical difficulties with this. I found the <p windowbg3 smalltext children> in the MessageIndex.template and what looks like the corresponding code in the forum.css file - but when I change the padding/margins, it doesn't look any different. Any other suggestions? As I pretty much said in my last post, I'm still learning to work with CSS so a lot of what you guys are saying is foreign to me...sorry!

The only thing I see in the forum.css file that has to do with child boards is:


#childboards table
{
width: 100%;
}


and


table.boardsframe p.children
{
border-top: solid 1px #ADADAD;
margin: 0;
padding: 0.5em;
}


And changing those things does nothing - especially in that second piece.
Running SMF 2.0.1

Antechinus

Well that border is definitely there in your screenshot so you seem to have the right class there.
Try this:

table.boardsframe p.children
{
   border-top: solid 1px #ADADAD;
   margin: 0;
   padding: 1.0em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em;
}


Not promising it'll work but give it a shot and see what happens.

ETA: Are you doing a forced refresh after each code change ( Ctrl+F5) ?

Lady Night Owl

That didn't work - thank you though :)

Yes, I am doing the forced refresh - nothing changes. :(
Running SMF 2.0.1

Antechinus

Ok, now you've got me curious. Firing up local host now. ;)

Antechinus

Got it. It involves putting nasty nasty styling back into those ever so semantic new templates but dammit, it works. ;D

This starts on Line 71 of an unmodified MessageIndex.template:

// Has it posts awaiting approval?
if ($child['can_approve_posts'] && ($child['unapproved_posts'] || $child['unapproved_topics']))
$child['link'] .= ' <a href="' . $scripturl . '?action=moderate;area=postmod;sa=' . ($child['unapproved_topics'] ? 'topics' : 'posts') . ';brd=' . $child['id'] . ';sesc=' . $context['session_id'] . '" title="' . sprintf($txt['unapproved_posts'] . $child['unapproved_topics'] . $child['unapproved_posts']) . '" class="moderation_link">(!)</a>';
$children[] = $child['new'] ? '<b>' . $child['link'] . '</strong>' : $child['link'];
}
echo '
<p class="windowbg3 smalltext children" style="padding-top: 0.5em;"><strong>', $txt['parent_boards'], '</strong>: ', implode(', ', $children), '</p>';
}


The top padding is the important bit. Everything else is standard.

Lady Night Owl

Well, I'll be damned!  :D

It does work, you're awesome! Thanks a million!!! 8)
Running SMF 2.0.1

Antechinus

No worries. I learnt something out of it too. If you want to preserve the sanctity of the holy semantic templates you could create a new class for it and do the styling in forum.css. Up to you. Wont make any difference to how your theme functions AFAIK.

Lady Night Owl

Hehe, I think I'll just leave it as is if the functionality is all the same. ;)
Running SMF 2.0.1

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