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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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#43
03-01-2010, 02:58 AM
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#44
03-01-2010, 03:18 AM
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Hey Lynne, can I get a response to my post? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....8&postcount=39
Thanks
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#45
03-01-2010, 03:30 AM
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All the other issues are CSS issues. I would use firebug to play around with the css and see exactly what controls what so you can change it. This is a good article to help you find classes - then just modify it right there on the page and see what happens - HOW TO Find what Stylevar you need to edit
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#46
03-01-2010, 03:48 AM
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Thanks a bunch, now you got me staying up longer tonight. LOL Guess I asked for it. hehe
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#47
03-01-2010, 11:07 AM
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I try with both codes but works not correct by me.
I added both codes to forumbits.css and after on forumdisplay.css but haven't worked. Take a look on the screenshot if you have the time to see how the forumdisplay subforum looking. Should i change the values of forums depth in the vb settings? Can you tell me what do i wrong? I test the code in the default vb style.
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#50
03-02-2010, 02:15 PM
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It looks like they just changed the class names from childforum to forumbits. I haven't done much checking, but I changed the name real quick and it seemed to work:
Code:
.forumbits ol {
float: left;
width: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.forumbits li.forumbit_post {
float: left;
width: 50%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
clear:none;
}
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#51
03-02-2010, 09:49 PM
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hi Lynne
In my site, it is correct on Firefox, but it is only 1 collumn on IE - You can see this information at my site at here
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