okay, kerry anne, I did what you said and I removed part of it. Now this is what it looks like:
and this is the code that I have now on the forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template:
Code:
<if condition="$forum[forumid] == 9">
<else />
</table>
<div style="padding: 7px 7px 7px 7px;"></div>
</if>
<!-- vBStyles Cat Top Start -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="$stylevar[tablewidth]" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="21" height="31" align="left" valign="top" style="background-image: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/top_bg.gif)"><img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/top_left.gif" width="21" height="31" alt="" /></td>
<td height="31" align="left" valign="middle" style="background-image: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/top_bg.gif)"><div style="color: #496690; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 6px; font-family: Tahoma;"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><b>$forum[title]</b></a></div></td>
<td width="19" align="left" valign="middle"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/top_end.gif" alt="" width="19" height="31" border="0" /></td>
<td width="60%" align="right" valign="top" style="background-image: url($stylevar[imgdir_misc]/top_center.gif)"><a style="float:$stylevar[right]; padding-top: 9px;" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_$forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_$forumid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a></td>
<td width="14" height="31" align="right" valign="top"><img border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/top_right.gif" width="14" height="31" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- /vBStyles Cat Top End -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
<tr align="center">
<td class="thead" width="35"> </td>
<td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="200">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" width="65">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead" width="65">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead" width="120">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>
$childforumbits
</tbody>
</if>