[bobster65]

Originally Posted by Defkalion

Bob,

excellent work, thankyou so much.

I installed without any problems, it was a piece of cake.

Question: is there any way to create an extra tab with the "what's going on" box, instead of having it appear under every tab?

Again, thankyou for a great hack.

Yer welcome

Yes, you can create extra tabs with info in them other than just Forum categories. All you need to do is put the info in what I call a content div area just like you did with the other tabs ..

Here is an example of putting the Whats going on box into a tab .. Note the RED IDs .. those are what link the tab to the div content ..

First you need to create an li tag for your new extra tab (I added a 4th tab in this example called Whats Going On and its ID=tcontent4

<!-- Tabbed Forum Home Tabs Layout -->
	<ul id="forumtabs" class="shadetabs"> 
	<li><a href="#" rel="tcontent1" class="selected">Tab 1</a></li> 
	<li><a href="#" rel="tcontent2">Tab 2</a></li> 
	<li><a href="#" rel="tcontent3">Tab 3</a></li>
	<li><a href="#" rel="tcontent4">Whats Going On</a></li>
       	</ul> 
<!-- /Tabbed Forum Home Tabs Layout -->

Then you need to create the Content Container and make sure that it has the same ID as the li tag you just added ..

<!-- Tabbed Forum Home – START whats going on box Tab Content Layout -->

<div id="tcontent4" class="tabcontent">

<!-- what's going on box -->
CONTENT REMOVED FOR SAMPLE
<!-- end what's going on box -->

</div>

<!-- /Tabbed Forum Home – END Tab 4 Content Layout -->

NOTE: Make sure that when you add extra tabs that they go BEFORE the below block of code.. You can always move this chunk of code lower in the template, just make sure that any content area Divs that you add go before it .. (Hope that made sense)

<!-- Tabbed Forums switch tab script -->
	<script type="text/javascript">
	var myforumtabs=new ddtabcontent("forumtabs") 
	myforumtabs.setpersist(true) 
	myforumtabs.setselectedClassTarget("link") 
	myforumtabs.init()
	</script>
<!-- /end Tabbed Forums switch tab script -->

Thats all there is to it...