topic Re: Forum Width in Community Site Feedback

Merged RE: CSS and Theme Issues

ddunford — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:23:26 GMT

Still seems to be CSS issues in IE. The right menu overlaps the middle section whilst the footer sometimes pops half way up still.

Re: Report New Bugs Here

Graham_W — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:12:48 GMT

The SMF footer is set at 700px wide and therefore is a little short.

Forum Width

dave — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:21:03 GMT

Seems to be set at a fixed width, can it be set more like the width on the Usergroup forum so that it fills the whole screen? I just get a small box in the middle of the screen, a waste of my shiny new monitor

Re: Forum Width

Oldjim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:12:42 GMT

Snap http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php?topic=76.msg1063#msg1063

Re: Forum Width

metman — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:31:38 GMT

That's two shiny new monitors that are being wasted!!

Re: Forum Width

matt_2k34 — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:30:26 GMT

agreed the "tiny" box in the middle is annoying.. even though ive got sidebar on and im not wasting too much space 🙂
prefer PUG layout tbh.

Re: Forum Width

Oldjim — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:41:31 GMT

Since I use Firefox I fixed it by creating a user style sheet as this

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#header-wrap + #content,
#header-wrap + #content .tborder {
width: 100% ! important;
}

Thanks Tamlyn for the assistance

Re: Forum Width

matt_2k34 — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:35:11 GMT

im not using firefox and im not using it just for this forum! 🙂
IE7 -- majority should be using this or IE6 so a fix for these two is expected 🙂

Re: Forum Width

Tamlyn — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:35:57 GMT

Quote from: Matt_2k34
agreed the "tiny" box in the middle is annoying.. even though ive got sidebar on and im not wasting too much space 🙂

Since gettinga 19" monitor I find it easier to keep my browser window non-maximised and set to a width of about 900pixels. That seems to be the width of most websites.
I've grown to really like clicking on a part of an obscured window rather than clicking on the task bar to raise a window. I find it easier to build a metal map of what my desktop looks like 'underneath'.

Re: Forum Width

matt_2k34 — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:47:18 GMT

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Since gettinga 19" monitor

Sadly im lumbered with my trusty 17" ..
And ic ant get used to having it XEROX tab style layout, just doesnt work for me. 🙂 i like the clean cut lines of windows yep im crazy...
i need lessons in mac usage or even getting one would probably change that

Re: Forum Width

Kakkoii — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:48:06 GMT

Currently the width of the forum seems to be set at 740px. If you change that to 100% it will fit the user's screen.

Re: Forum Width

trev — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:13:11 GMT

I'd like full width also and I'll leave comments on colours and borders for another day.

Re: Header Bar looks a bit dicky to me...

James — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:14:26 GMT

Hmm. No change on my browser. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.6 and it looks fine.

Re: Header Bar looks a bit dicky to me...

James — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:20:38 GMT

Also okay in 7.0.5335.5
Clearly I'm a little behind you

Re: Header Bar looks a bit dicky to me...

mitch — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:22:20 GMT

Thats a problem with the font size it's displaying in IE, which is a stylesheet issue and i'm pretty sure will be occuring all the time, whilst logged out.
i'll have a look at getting a fix rolled out asap. thanks for letting us know!
if your interested, its because we're using percentages to define the size of the text in the links, and these percentages are interpreted differently across browsers.

Re: Header Bar looks a bit dicky to me...

spraxyt — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:20:30 GMT

Quote from: James_H
…Also the LOGIN button appears to obscure the Community logo a little.

I assume this is a side-effect from not being logged in. When logged out one sees Login and Register which takes up display width.
When logged in Logout comes next to About and there is plenty of space between Logout and and the Community logo (which is also the "Home" button in case anyone wonders where this is).
In due course I assume the Bugs button will reduce in importance and be removed.

Re: Merged RE: CSS and Theme Issues

Kelly — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:58:07 GMT

Can someone describe the bug being seen here as I'm confused.

Re: Merged RE: CSS and Theme Issues

jelv — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:21:15 GMT

I've just looked in IE7 and the buttons are complete with four rounded corners without encroaching on the logo. Even tried altering the zoom with no ill effects.

Re: Merged RE: CSS and Theme Issues

Kelly — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:44:21 GMT

apologies if you've gone over this before. Have you deleted any cached CSS files?

Re: Merged RE: CSS and Theme Issues

Tamlyn — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:45:27 GMT

Quote from: James_H
Looks as if its only me that has the issue though, and only on one of my machines.

Probably a font issue. It's trying to use verdana which is a pretty common font. Any chance you don;t have that installed? Or that it may be a non-standard version of it? I get a similar thing (jagged bottom edges) on opera/linux which does weird stuff to fonts on many websites.
I guess we can probably close this then?