[legionofangels]

Ok here is the deal.

Reeve of Shinra who posted probably a year ago when this was originally released was absolutely right about the placement of the code. If we put the code where you suggest, of which you have done on several of your boards patientfragen and the other one, you will have extra dead space in the Description boxes because its lining up with the Description Text and Not the Forum Title. If you have it line up with the Forum Title it will look uniform and fit perfectly without the dead space. Dependant on the image size yes, but more than likely if you have similar length forum descriptions you can find an image size to work properly.

Earlier in this thread someone mentioned how to get it next to the Forum Title I noticed just now, but the screenshot they posted confused me, since it shows them as Category Icons and Not Forum Description Images which is what this is.

But yeah to repeat:

If you put:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forumid.png" alt="" class="ForumImages" />

Directly in front of:

<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>

So that it looks like this:

<img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/$forumid.png" alt="" class="ForumImages" />
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>

The images will line up properly with the forum title, and it probably should be standard for this add on as well. Because Starbug even though you're right that the image will affect the height of the Description Box, if your placing the code to line up with only the description and not the title, it almost certainly will in most cases; regardless of the image size you use. Meaning that if the text for the descriptions which is Small Font in your Styles Manager is only like 13px, any image above 13px height is going to stretch the Description Box further. Even if it's 2 Sentences high that makes it 26 pixels maybe 30 with the padding or small space in between, therefore any image over 30 pixels will push the description box further. You also can't go that small with images or people won't be able to make them out and you'll have very few icon options out there that you can find or make to work with this.

The fact is with most boards, if you want to use this and want it to look good you'll also want to keep your forum descriptions of similar length. As even though you can get this next to the title, if your description is too long the image will be dwarfed by the text. I wouldn't suggest using different image sizes based upon different description length, I would make the descriptions of similar length. I even noticed it on my board now that certain descriptions aren't long enough and there is a small amount of space underneath them. So I'll probably make them a bit longer tomorrow so the space is evened out.

So this is what I did.

For the Image Size I actually found our longest forum description which was typically 2 lines of Description. I screenshotted the forum, then cropped a description section to see the pixel dimension showing. It was something like 70 pixels, I then went 10 less than that, or 60 for my image size. Then applied the relevant code shown in my post here, modifying the add-on's as explained in this post, and applied the additional css, uploaded all the images.

As you can see in the example of checking out our forum on any style, it turned out pretty well. If you want to view it, do it fast though because we're not for sure if we are going to keep them, the discussion has begun on that. They honestly feel a bit gimmicky to me. I'd almost preferred them in the Category Section which I know I can do, indifference to the Forum Description but I don't want to lose our custom icons of new post, no new post, etc.

Check it out:

http://www.legionofangels.net/forum/

Screenshot I guess since I don't know if we'll use them in the future: