how to hide the button "collapse" on forum category in the main page?

[ofir24]

how to hide the button "collapse" on forum category in the main page?
i have vbulletin 4.1.7

[Lynne]

Perhaps...
a.collapse {display: hidden;}

[ofir24]

a.collapse didn't found on the homepage

[Lynne]

Huh?

[ofir24]

i don't understand, i'm noobie, what should i do? where to go? i have no clue.

[Lynne]

That's just some CSS. You can put it into the additional.css template.

[ofir24]

i try to search it on the edit style-forum home templates-forum home, didn't found it , as far as i know it's supposed to be there.

[nerbert]

To eliminate it only on the forum home page go to forumhome.css and put in

a.collapse {visibility:hidden;}

at the top. I think that will do it.

[ofir24]

strange thing, quate from my forumhome style:
"{vb:cssfile forumbits.css,forumhome.css,widgets.css,sidebar.cs s,options.css,tagcloud.css}"
when i looking for the file "forumhome.css" on my website folder, the search can't find the file.

[nerbert]

AdimCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Edit Templates > [<<>>](expand button) > forumhome.css

[ofir24]

AdimCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Edit Templates > [<<>>](expand button) > forumhome.css

didn't find it, that's what i found "Customize Template: FORUMHOME", that's the closest.

[nerbert]

All the css templates are in a group, so you won't find forumhome.css right after FORUMHOME. Scroll about 25% down the list.

If modifying forumhome.css doesn't change anything try forumbits.css and forumbits-ie.css

[ofir24]

not working , never mind, i a second thought it's better that way. thanks.

[Simon Lloyd]

You could look in the forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template and look for <vb:if condition="!$show['collapsable_forums']">
and replace the whole of the<tbody> tag for this<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" <vb:if condition="$forumid == 1">style="display: none" <vb:else /> style="{$collapseobj_forumid}"></if></if>
$childforumbits
<vb:if condition="!$show['collapsable_forums']">
</tbody>
Don't forget to change the forum id :)

[ofir24]

i don't familier with that program language, but i think you lil bit confuse with:
<vb:else /> --><vb:else>
</vb:else>--></if>

[Simon Lloyd]

You're right, i don't have vb4, but all you need to do is change the IFs and ELSEs to the right format for vb4 and all will be good :)

[ofir24]

i try it, didn't work.

[Lynne]

You tried what? Post *exactly* what you did and what the result was or we cannot help.

[ofir24]

i don't familier with that langauge, i try everything, the tag if / else, i switch position to all of them, didn't work, it's just show nothing, and 1 time, i don't know wich time cause i try a lot,
it work except that "$childforumbits" was where the name of the category was, i thought it may be cause i didn't change the id, which i don't know how to do that, i didn't even thing about guessing,
guessing it's not for me, i want my forum to be perfect, not some guessing which will make me lot's of problems.
if you don't know i prefer to leave that as it is.
thanks.

[Simon Lloyd]

That code i provided (without the vb: added) worked perfect for me when i added it to my vb3.8 forum, the forum id i chose was collapsed by default!

[ofir24]

i don't think i should put id, if i will not put id it will effect all the forums.

[Simon Lloyd]

i don't think i should put id, if i will not put id it will effect all the forums.What are you talking about?, look it would be best if you either posted your template code complete with the code added so we can see what you have done or just abandon this thread.

[ofir24]

<li class="forumbit_nopost {vb:raw forum.statusicon} L1" id="cat{vb:raw forum.forumid}">
<div class="forumhead foruminfo L1 collapse">
<h2>
<span class="forumtitle"><a href="{vb:link forum, {vb:raw forum}}">{vb:raw forum.title}</a></span>
<span class="forumlastpost">{vb:rawphrase last_post}</span>
<vb:if condition="!$show['collapsable_forums']">
<a class="collapse" id="collapse_c_cat{vb:raw forum.forumid}" href="{vb:raw relpath}#top"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse_40b.png" alt="" title="{vb:rawphrase collapse_this_category}" /></a>
</vb:if>
</h2>

<vb:if condition="$show['forumdescription'] OR $show['subforums']">
<div class="forumrowdata">
<vb:if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><p class="subforumdescription">{vb:raw forum.description}</p></vb:if>

<vb:if condition="$show['subforums']">
<div class="subforums">
<h4 class="subforumlistlabel">{vb:rawphrase subforums}:</h4>
<ol class="subforumlist commalist">
{vb:raw forum.subforums}
</ol>
</div>
</vb:if>
</div>
</vb:if>
</div>
<vb:if condition="$childforumbits">
<ol id="c_cat{vb:raw forum.forumid}" class="childforum">
{vb:raw childforumbits}
</ol>
</vb:if>
</li>