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[HOW TO - vB4] Two column forum/sub-forum setup via CSS only
 Lynne
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 41,180
California/Idaho
11-20-2009, 10:00 PM
This is just a quick writeup of the very basics to achieve a two column setup for your forums through only the use of CSS - no template modifications or plugins required. (Original thread requesting this infomation is here.) I am NOT going to be teaching CSS is this article! You WILL need to have some basic understanding of what Cascading Style Sheets are all about in order to further change this since this is only the basics to put stuff in position with no padding or margins or any other styling applied - that is up to you to do. This was written during the beta3/beta4 testing and may need to be modified for use with other versions since classes may be changed as the style has not been finalized yet. This was written to work with the default style and default stylevars (default at this time, that is). If you have customized your style in any way, you may have to change this a bit to work with your style. These classes also only apply to the forum home page but can easily be modified (by you!) to work on the forumdisplay pages and to work only for certain categories. Making the browser width small may change things, or if you have long descriptions or sub-forums listed or moderators listed, you may have to change the CSS to accommodate that. As I said, this in ONLY AN OUTLINE of what you need to do. You will have to add styling information yourself. This is basically what you will end up with:  The very basics of what to do Add this to the additional.css template - it must be added *after* any other definitions regarding these sub-forums have been declared - if you don't understand why that is, then please read up on exactly what Cascading Style Sheets are all about): Code:
.forumhead + .childforum .L2:first-child .forumrow, .forumhead + .L2 .forumrow {
border-top: 0;
}
.forumrow .table {
height: 100px;
}
ol.childforum {
float: left;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.childforum li.forumbit_post {
float: left;
width: 50%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
clear:none;
}
#forums .L1 .L2 {
clear:none;
}
.forumbit_post .forumrow .forumlastpost {
clear:both;
width:95%;
}
.forumbit_post .forumlastpost .lastpostby {
display: block;
float: left;
}
.forumbit_post .forumlastpost .lastpostdate {
display: block;
float: right;
}
.forumbit_post .forumlastpost .lastposttitle {
display: block;
float: left;
}
.forumbit_post .foruminfo {
clear:right;
float:left;
min-width:50%;
width:70%;
}
.forumbit_post .forumstats, .forumbit_post .forumstats_2 {
width:20%;
}
Code:
.subforums ol.subforumlist {
float: left;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.subforumlist li.subforum {
float: left;
width: 50%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
clear:none;
}
/* to remove the commas */
.commalist li.subforum:after {
content:"";
}
Again, this article is NOT about teaching you CSS. You will have to style this yourself and also make any other changes necessarily because of customized styles or changes after beta 4. 
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#92
12-02-2010, 03:58 AM
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1. I think it's a phrase. So, just edit the phrase to have nothing in it.
2. I think it really depends on how much you put into the additional.css. If it's just a normal sized template like the others, then it shouldn't be a problem. 3. I think you'd have to edit that template and put the sub-forums in their own div that doesn't include the forum title and threads/posts number. And make that div clear:both and it should go all the way across.
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#95
12-03-2010, 02:01 PM
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Sorry, but my test site is password protected, so I can only post images.
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#96
12-06-2010, 04:22 PM
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Thanks Lynne ..
I like what you've done to the sub forums using css .. I'll try to do that to the sub forums of one forum only if it works .. Thanks again ..
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#97
12-06-2010, 04:55 PM
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#98
12-16-2010, 02:06 AM
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a very good modification. but I would like to know how to make the forum with only two columns in FORUMHOME (index).
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#99
01-25-2011, 04:44 PM
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Doesnt seem to be working for me... Is there any mod to perform the same function? (with the options to choose no. of columns)
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#100
01-25-2011, 05:05 PM
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I added the css to additional.css but still not displaying properly...
See the screenshot attached.... plz help
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#101
01-25-2011, 05:22 PM
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As I said at the beginning, this will work on a Default Style. If you changed anything like padding or margins, you will need to edit the CSS to work for you. This works just fine on my default test site. And yes, there is a mod to do it. I don't know the link or name though.
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