Setting smilie alignment in posts
 

Something that had been bugging me for a while now was the fact that VBulletin didn't declare an alignment option for the "img src" tags used for smilies inserted into posts.

Why did this bug me?

Because some smilies cause the paragraph line spacing in a post to be fairly skewed, especially if the smilie is larger than 15x15 pixels. I tend to think that it looks better if the alignment is set to "absmiddle" in the IMG tag.

To change the default behavior, you need only edit one file and make one change.

Open the functions.php file in your VBulletin admin directory and do the following...

find this in the admin\functions.php file
and replace it with this

Note the addition of the align=\"absmiddle\" in the img src tag. This will force the smilie to be aligned so that it's center is equal to the center of the line of text that surrounds it.

You could change the alignment value to any of the other viable HTML 4.0 options for the "img" tag. For more information on the alignment options available, visit this page:

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/ht...ecial/img.html

Hope this helps someone else!

Thanks, it does look better. The problem isn't completely solved (spaces between the lines are not homogenous) but it helps. :)

True, true. I haven't really decided what alignment value I prefer for my forums yet. absmiddle is cool so long as all smilies are 15x15 or less pixels, but larger smilies really muck up the "pagination" (for lack of a better word). :ermm:

This does make the smilies look much better, thanks ;)