How to place a general message above all forums

[sbartelski]

I have looked everywhere, but cannot find a way to place a text in the forum header. Can someone point me in the right direction, please?

What I would like to do is have a message like "Merry Christmas" or "We are experiencing some technical issues, but the forum is still open. Be aware that you may need to.....".  The latter is very current for me right now

Stefan

[Kindred]

that's generally what the NEWS section is for...

[shadav]

  that's what I was going to say....use the news system and in the current theme settings allow news in header

but otherwise would need to know where you want it placed (but then each time you want to change it, you'll have to edit the actual files)

[sbartelski]

Thanks for those replies, they look like they will give the desired result. I will try it out shortly and then post back

Stefan

[sbartelski]

Thanks to everyone for their help, I do have the desired solution

[efk]

Can it be done with portal mod when using to display Everywhere? If I'm right the message from the News section will show only to Forum page with boards.
News section is coming with jumping boards problem if you use few messages, so after some time text message will change if there is a difference on text length so result will be often blind clicking on wrong boards because it will jump all the time like Facebook news page does, updating all the time with every single post, or infinite loading for older computers and moving focus all the time.

[Ninja ZX-10RR]

Can it be done with portal mod when using to display Everywhere? If I'm right the message from the News section will show only to Forum page with boards.
News section is coming with jumping boards problem if you use few messages, so after some time text message will change if there is a difference on text length so result will be often blind clicking on wrong boards because it will jump all the time like Facebook news page does, updating all the time with every single post, or infinite loading for older computers and moving focus all the time.

A bit hard to understand but if you have different heights for your news items I would suggest using [html][/html] tags in the news admin input area and from there you can add something along the lines of...

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[html]<p style="height: 2em; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center;">Your news here</p>[/html]
Basically give it some height so that the shorter item will have more space as long as you don't go overkill with the longer one. Trial and error a bit.
This will also turn the news item into flex, it's needed otherwise you can't vertically align text inside an inline element...

An alternative solution would be:

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[html]<p style="height: 2em; display: inline-block; margin: auto;">Your news here</p>[/html]
But this won't vertically align them.

Tweak the 2em as needed, of course
And yes, we could get a perfect result with css by adding a :before empty element to the inline element but I don't have time to elaborate on that.

[Kindred]

or do it properly in CSS rather than inline inside the news....

[sbartelski]

Thanks again for these further suggestions. I actually found enough in using BBCode tags (, ) to "jazz" up my message. And since the major reason for my News message has been resolved, the BBC tags are enough.

Luckily, as CSS is beyond my capabilities right now and I have enough on plate without adding learning CSS ;-)

Stefan

[Sir Osis of Liver]

There's also this -

https://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=351