[Rob Locke]

Hi Folks,

After all my investigations I have found out how to add spaces between comments and make them look the same as regular posts. If anyone else is interested in doing this, here's how:

Open your vBulletin admin and go to Styles and Templates > Style Manager. Click on the << >> button to the right of the page (or select 'Edit Templates' from the drop-down box).

1) Open the template called GAS_article_pb by double clicking on it. At the very top of the page you will see:

<!-- Article #$post[postid] -->

Immediately below it, add...

<if condition="$show['spacer']">
	<div style="padding:0px 0px $stylevar[cellpadding]px 0px">
	<if condition="!$post['islastshown']"><!-- this is not the last post shown on the page --></if>	
</if>

Now go to the very bottom of the page, where you will see:

<!-- / Article #$post[postid] -->

Immediately above it, add...

<if condition="$show['spacer']">
	</div>
</if>

Save the template.

2) Now open the template GAS_comment_pb. Make the same code additions to the top and bottom of the page respectively, in this instance immediately below <!-- comment #$post[postid] --> and immediately above <!-- / comment #$post[postid] -->

Save the template.

3) Now open the template GAS_showthread. Find this code...

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style="margin-top:3px">

and replace it with...

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"<if condition="$vboptions['legacypostbit']"> style="margin-top:3px"</if>>

There are two instances of this code that need to be replaced, so repeat step 3 again to finish.

Save the template and that's it!

Best wishes,

Rob.