[caycerule]

Awesome!, it worked. I had to create two versions of the plugin. One as default and another for VBadvanced. So far I only have the setup pictured working for VBAdvanced, but I plan on tackling the forum next.

Here is a screen of the working version:



I'm basically redoing the entire forum using a CSS style-sheet instead of the built in style selector system.

Here is the vbadvanced code for adv_portal_recthreads_lean:

<tr class="post">
	<td class="meta">
		$avatar
		<h3><a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$thread[threadid]" title="<if condition="$thread[preview]">$thread[preview]</if>"><if condition="$show['gotonewpost']"><strong>$thread[title]</strong><else />$thread[title]</if></a></h3>
		<phrase 1="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$thread[postuserid]" 2="$thread[postusername]">$vbphrase[by_x]</phrase>
		<div class="clear"></div>
	</td>
	<td class="postCount">
		$thread[replycount]
	</td>
	<td class="update">
		$thread[lastpostdate]<!--<a href="$vboptions[bburl]/showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$thread[lastpostid]#post$thread[lastpostid]"><img alt="" border="0" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/lastpost.gif" title="$vbphrase[go_to_last_post]" /></a>--><br />
		by <a href="$vboptions[bburl]/member.php?$session[sessionurl]find=lastposter&amp;t=$thread[threadid]">$thread[lastposter]</a>
	</td>
</tr>

I create a module wrapper specifically for that templlet thats basically just a table with class="posts" and a tr for the red bit at the top.

Here is the css I used for the styling:

.posts {
	width: 593px;
	font-size: 11px;
	line-height: 1.4;
	margin-bottom: 25px;
	white-space: nowrap;
}

tr.thead td {
	border-bottom-style: none;
	padding: 6px 10px;
	background-color: #800000;
	color: #fff;
	font-size: 12px;
	font-weight: bold;
	line-height: 1;
}

.post td {
	padding: 10px;
	vertical-align: middle;
	background-color: #fff;
	border-style: none;
}

.post + .post td,
.post + .post + .post + .post td,
.post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post td,
.post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post td {
	background-color: #f5f5f5;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #dadada;
	border-top: 1px solid #dadada;
	
}

.post + .post + .post td,
.post + .post + .post + .post + .post td,
.post + .post + .post + .post + .post  + .post + .post td,
.post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post + .post td {
	background-color: #fff;
	border-style: none;
}

td.meta {
	width: 300px;
}

.posts .meta img {
	max-width: 35px;
	max-height: 35px;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	margin-right: 8px;
	display: block;
	float: left;
}

td.postCount {
	vertical-align: middle;
	text-align: center;
	width: 85px;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

Thanks for the quick reply, helped a lot. I'll be sure to add more details about when I finish up.