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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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#142
12-05-2011, 05:37 PM
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If you look at the page source, you'll see this at the start of categories:
<li id="cat48" class="forumbit_nopost old L1"> So you could add #cat48 in front of the class. Example, instead of: .subforums ol.subforumlist You could put: #cat48 .subforums ol.subforumlist
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#143
12-19-2011, 05:28 PM
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Really good stuff, as usual. Is there a way to increase the width between subforums? So that they aren't so stacked/crammed on top of one another?
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0a0qfy939
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#144
12-19-2011, 07:02 PM
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Quote:
.subforumlist li.subforum { padding-top: 5px; }
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#145
12-23-2011, 08:14 AM
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Ok So, I Have set my ".childforum li.forumbit_post {" to 50%.... My 3rd category always looks ugly. Please See This -
 How do i Center it?
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#147
01-18-2012, 02:56 PM
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i like this but it confuses me lol
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#149
01-22-2012, 07:20 AM
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Quote:
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#150
04-29-2012, 02:45 AM
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I just installed 4.1.12pl1 and this stopped working. I still get two columns, but the spacing differs from forum to forum with 3 different spacings. It is behaving like a tab stop overflow instead of just dividing the area into two pieces as it was last week with 4.1.10.
Did 4.1.12pl1 change the name of the class for subforum? Here is what I have in additional css. HTML 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;
}
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#151
04-29-2012, 03:03 AM
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I'm not sure what you mean. I just tested that on my default 4.1.12 site and it looks the same on the forum.php page as on the forumdisplay.php page.
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