Why aren't my thread and post columns lining up?

[ski diva]

They used to stack up neatly from one forum to the next, and now they're all over the place, out of alignment. I'm using 3.8.2. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?

[Lynne]

They are in different tables. They won't line up unless you do something like set the width for the columns.

[ski diva]

Thanks! It's weird, though. They used to line up and now they're not.

Where can I check the column width? It's been a long time since I checked this out, and I have no idea how to do this anymore.

I looked in StyleVar, but can't seem to find anywhere there to set widths for different forums. HELP!!!!!

This is how it's looking now:

[Lynne]

You need to look in the template. To find the template, do this - vboptions > General Settings > Add Template Name in HTML Comments > set to Yes . Then go back to your page and view the source code and you will see the name of the template called around your part of the code. (Sometimes the template is the one mentioned at the very top of the page source.)

[ski diva]

Thanks, Lynne. I know which template it was (forumhome), but I've never either set or edited table widths on any templates before, and I don't know what to do next. I'm also concerned that until recently, I've never had this alignment problem. I haven't done anything to reconfigure or reset the tables.

[Lynne]

Hard to tell why the issue started since we don't have a link to see it live. But, my guess is it's an issue of one table having long forum descriptions, another not and one table having more in the Last Post columns, and the others not. You probably set the Threads/Posts columns and then have the others set in such a way that things are pushing out of those dimensions. But, I don't know that for sure. Analyze it with firebug.

[ski diva]

Here's a live link. What do you think?

[Lynne]

In one table, the prefix is long and pushed the Last Post Box far out. And, in the others, they are also pushing the box out past the 150px you have in the css for it. I think a couple of tables are fine and staying at the 150px you specify.

[ski diva]

So how do I solve this?

I've adjusted the forum descriptions, but that hasn't changed anything.

[Lynne]

You solve it by setting the width for the last post column to be a bit bigger.