Side Bar

[dc1pop]

Hi,

How would i go about adding a side bar to my forums for example look at these sites:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/

and

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/

Thanks for any help

Regards,
Darren

[peterska2]

Looking at those two sites, you are looking at a combination of two mods.

1. Creat a left column on all pages by amykhar
2. Vertical site navigation by myself

I hope this helps.

[dc1pop]

Thanks for the help!

Much appricated

[dc1pop]

Im now using the left side hack but i want the table to auto fill the table so it reaches the footer. How would i go about doing this?

Ive tried using height 100% and also placing

#fullheight{height:100%} in my CSS and then giving the table and id=fullheight statement but i cant get it to work:

Attachment 45659

I want it as the side coloum on the money saving expert links shows above so the table reaches the footer even if it has no content.

Hope someone can help driving me crazy now

[peterska2]

I would imagine that you will need to specify the height in pixels in the td tag. I've not needed to have it full height so haven't actually gone through the motions of finding the right place to specify that. Plus, the height will vary from site to site, and will fluctate depending on any calandar events, birthdays, etc.

[dc1pop]

Thats what i mean i dont want to specifiy the height as threads have varying lengths. I just want it to resize even one cell so it will autofill untill it reaches the footer.

[peterska2]

ok, it's not nice code, but it works, so that's all that matters.

make the changes as defined here

HEADER

Find

<!-- Left Column Code  -->
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="160" valign="top" align="left">$leftcolumn</td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<!-- End Left Column Code -->

REPLACE WITH
[cdoe]<!-- Left Column Code -->
<table border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr>
<td width="160" valign="top" height="100%" align="left">$leftcolumn</td>
<td valign="top">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<!-- End Left Column Code -->[/code]

LEFT_COLUMN or RIGHT_COLUMN

Find

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="90%">

REPLACE WITH

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" width="90%" height="100%">

For the bit that you want to stretch

Replace

<tr>

with

<tr height="100%" valign="top">

It works on my test board.

[dc1pop]

Dont seem to like that in Internet Explorer but works fine with FireFox maybe il re desgin my nav bar.

Is their anyway that you know of so that the box has no gap on the left hand side and is flush with the page?

Thanks for all your help!!

Darren

[peterska2]

in your left_column template

change

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" [high]width="90%"[/high]>

to

<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" class="tborder" [high]width="100%"[/high]>

I don't know why it doesn't work in IE, but I next to never use it, so I never think about it.

[dc1pop]

Thanks still got a few issues so the forums can still be spaced but il read up more so i dont keep bugging you.

Thanks for your help.