slight code change - I tried but my forum went KABOOM

[aceofspades]

Im trying to achieve this:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8061/vbhelp2ri3.jpg

I need the extra bar on the top. I have been trying to get this work all morning, ive found out that i probably need to be looking at the forumbit_level1_nopost template and i thought it would just be a case of adding this at the top:

<td class="tcat"><td>

but alas that screwed everything up. Could anyone please tell me what i am doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

James

[CyberAlien]

Its in forumhome template, not forumhome_forumbit_* templates.

[aceofspades]

In which case, what code should i be adding? I tried this:

<td class="tcat"><td>

So it read:

<!-- main -->
<td class="tcat"><td>
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
$forumbits

And nothing changed.

James

[CyberAlien]

Before $forumbits add something like this:<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">

</td>
</tr>
and remove that code you added before <table>

[aceofspades]

Right, my forumhome looks like this now (a little selection of it):

$header
$navbar

<!-- main -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>">
</td>
</tr>
$forumbits

But it gives me this:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8160/vborgnn6.gif

Can i make the bar as tall as the bar below it, at the moment its only about 2 pixels high.

Thanks for your help on this.

James

[CyberAlien]

That's because its empty. Put something in it - whatever you wanted to put there. If you don't want to put anything then put &nbsp;

[aceofspades]

Oh...right...lol.

Thank you, working perfectly now.