Information Bar for Guests

Information Bar for Guests (for version 3.5.0)

What is this?
This will display an information bar across the top of the browser window that appears to be like the Information Bar that is from Windows XP SP2. When the user clicks it they will be sent to the registration page for your forums. This is not a popup.

If the user is logged in then this will not display at all. This only appears on the page for people who are not logged in.

http://www.veteransresources.org/forums/index.php? - Example Site

How many changes?

• Uploads: 4
  • infobar.css
  • infobar.wav (optional)
  • warning.gif
  • warning2.gif
• File edits: 0
• Template edits: 2
  • headinclude
  • header
• New templates: 0
• Queries: 0

Version History

• 1.04
  • added info bar sound (Lionel)
• 1.03
  • no javascript required now
  • works in Firefox
• 1.02
  • removed information bar any browser other than IE
• 1.01
  • removed information bar from login and registration pages (Lionel)
• 1.00
  • initial release

Screenshots
Guest on forums
Guest hovering over info bar

Please click Install this Modification if you like it.

[Slapyo]

eh, the javascript was really doing nothing more than just putting in the link and the text. why use javascript to do that when you can just type it yourself. it didn't need to be done in javascript at all since it was so simple and something that could be done by plain html. really was no point in it.

[Slapyo]

edit: links removed ... not working

the way i wanted it to works is, when you are scrolling the content and the info bar is staying in place at the top. however when i try and wrap the tags around the forum stuff it freaks out and doesn't display properly.

[bigcurt]

It does not work in Opera, Mozilla or Firefox.

[bigcurt]

Great hack though

[Slapyo]

i tested it in firefox 1 and someone else tested in firefox .8 and it worked.

[mcyates]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

in infobar.css at the very top is the stuff for body, remove this line:

	overflow: hidden !important;

so now the body should only have 2 properties set. see if that works for you.

yup that fixed it, thanks a lot.

[speedway]

Hmmm, I run Firefox 1.0 and the example site works perfectly - the little yellow bar across the top and I still have scroll bars. So for me, it works in Firefox.

[Wired1]

LMAO! Awesome hack man.

[Slapyo]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

edit: links removed ... not working

the way i wanted it to works is, when you are scrolling the content and the info bar is staying in place at the top. however when i try and wrap the tags around the forum stuff it freaks out and doesn't display properly.

well i tested out that page and it works fine in IE but it doesn't work in firefox. so it looks like this hack is pretty much finished unless there is more stuff that can be added to it.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by Slapyo

http://www.veteransresources.org/forums/infobar.html - how it should be
http://www.veteransresources.org/forums/infobar2.css - css file used

notice that when you scroll, you are scrolling the content and the info bar is staying in place at the top. however when i try and wrap the tags around the forum stuff it freaks out and doesn't display properly.

you can view the source of that file as well as the css file. i only added back in the overflow: hidden for the body. that was the only change. it obviously works, cause you can see it right there. not sure why it's not working properly when i do it in vB.

have you tried putting the division viewplot in a table with all the vbcontent?