Hey,

Since moving my PM and whose online bars into the same line

My PM icon seems to have had it's space behind it expand. What I mean is the box that the icon sits on has gotten so big my PM icon looks lost lol

Here's a link ::::

Click Here

Does anyone know how to rectify this please ????

Also, does anyone know how I can remove the world.gif and the box it sits in ????

Thanks,

TotalNewbie

Looks fine to me, mano. You're aren't using netscape, are you? It has some...issues with simple tables.

as for the globe...just follow these instructions (be creative though, i just ripped the code from the parsed HTML):

find this in Ultimate.cgi:


Delete it. Right below, or next to the above line is something like this:


change 'colspan="5"' to 'colspan="6"'.

Again, your code doesn't look like that, I used the parsed HTML.


By the way, your board would look really nice with a thin border around it (like the one here, and at my board .
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-david
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Thanks EvilEmpire dude

I'll go give that a try.

And I agree with the border. How would I go about that please ????

Your boards look real nice with it on

TotalNewbie

there is a really, really simple way to do a border but naturally, it doesn't work in netscape. So we have to do it that hard, tedious, annoying way instead.

Mine are probably a little more complicated than most, but it helps in the long run, I think.

OK, in Styles.file, add two new variables, right before "1;":


OK, you need to set your $TableWidth to 100% in the control panel too. This means that all your tables will be 100% of the width of the number you just set in Styles.file. Theres a catch though. Once you do all that, ALL your tables on ALL pages will be 100% of the screen size until you add a border to every one.

Thats the color of your category bar, by the way. I think it would look nice, but that's up to you.


Now I'm going to show you how to add it to....forumdisplay.cgi. After that, you can carry the same principals to any other page you want to apply it on. I chose forumdisplay.cgi because it's the simplest file, thus easy to edit.

find the first instance of this:


insert these things into the table tag, right before ">":


Now, right before the "<table" tag, insert the following:


Find this about 30-40 lines down:


Add this after it:


Can you see where this is going? Basically, you just want to enclose all the tables within another table row whose background is the border color. At the end, after the last
"</table>" tag, add:



Those instructions were probably pretty bad, but I hope I helped a little. If you need any minor help, just view the source of my pages, because thats almost exactly how I did mine.

Heres how the basic format should look (not the real code):


Also, I just realized that your topmost table (containing image and such) would probably look pretty bad with a border. I'm sure you can figure that out later though.

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-david
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Width is due to colspan.. you have 4 columns (pm & who's online) but your ubb has 5 or sometimes more..



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Cyber-Poetry.com
UBB Layout Designer/Affiliate

errr.... i think that there is a "border color" option in the licensed ubb style settings?

Also there must be two table width options; one for internal table (100%) & one for external (95%)...

well, then. I didn't know about that.

As for the external/internal widths...I covered that.

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-david
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To the best of my knowledge, the UBB already has bits of HTML code defined for the tables needed for the "tedious" border method, called $BorderTop and $BorderBottom ... Makes life a lot easier

Oh, and yes the UBB has a BorderColor setting, but it is actually for the cell background color used in the workaround tables.

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goodfellasweb.com

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by SonnyBlack on October 03, 2000 at 09:50 PM</font>

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-david
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Was doing a search for this subject, and came up with this topic. Basically, i've followed the instructions above, but my borders came out really thick. Could anyone help me? My board is here.

Thanks!

<FONT COLOR="#6699cc" SIZE="1" FACE="Verdana, Arial">This message has been edited by 9679 on October 14, 2000 at 08:17 AM</font>

make sure that cellspacing is set to "1" in your main table.

find this in your code:
<table border="0" width=100%>

it should look like that, unless the 100% is a variable, like "$TableWidth". Right before the ending ">", add this line:

cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"

Thats it.



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-david
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Thanks for the help, it worked!