Prevent Oversized Images Breaking Message Tables & Sigs 2.1

Description: Using the CSS "overflow" attribute you can prevent large images from breaking your message column. This helps extremely for the people who use fixed widths. Images that display larger than the message column width will show a horizontal bar.

But it has already been done: Yes, but the other (non) CSS methods affect the overall performance of the forum. The CSS method previously provided required editing a .php file. Plus, in Internet Explorer both the horizontal and vertical scrollbar displayed. This method eliminates the vertical scrollbar. The modification only requires editing the postbit and/or postbit_legacy template and Main CSS.

What else to expect: The horizontal scrollbar will affect the entire post of the oversized image. That's the nature of the modification. No biggie.

Targeted Layout Type: Fixed width layout

Browsers tested: Internet Explorer and Firefox

Compatible vB versions: 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5 and 3.6+

Thank yous: CyberAlien (Correction on ID to Class); kennn (PM resize - conditional code below)



Optional Modifications Added (3.14.06)!:
A) Signature (Cuts off oversized signatures in message bits by width & height.)

B) vBadvanced Newsbit (Same like the original, just with vBadvanced.)

C) vBadvanced Newsbit Signatures (Same like the original signature mod, just with vBadvanced.)

D) Private Message conditional posted by kennn (click here to post)

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Finally, let's edit!
(Or you can download the .txt file for the installation instructions)

1. Back up your templates!

2. In your postbit or postbit_legacy template find this or something similar to:

  <!-- message -->
  <div id="post_message_$post[postid]">$post[message]</div>
  <!-- / message -->

Replace it with:

  <!-- message -->
  <div id="post_message_$post[postid]" class="hidemsg">$post[message]</div>
  <!-- / message -->

3. Click "Save".

4. In Main CSS go to the bottom at Additional CSS Definitions and add code bit:

.hidemsg  {
  width:700px;
  padding-bottom:20px;
  overflow:auto;
  overflow-x:auto;
  overflow-y:hidden;
  }

5. Change the width "700px" to whatever you want. All other settings keep.

6. Click "Save".

7. Click if you use it.

Finished!


*For those of you who use a fluid layout take a look at this post. Thanks 007 for sharing.


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Optional Modifications (Below)!!!:

*The 3 (A, B & C) optional modifications below follow the same steps as above with the exception of #2, #4 and #5.

A) For Signatures (Hide Oversized Images width & height):

2. In your postbit or postbit_legacy template find this or something similar to:

  <!-- sig -->
   <div>
    __________________<br />
    $post[signature]
   </div>
  <!-- / sig -->

Replace it with:

  <!-- sig -->
   <div class="hidesig">
    __________________<br />
    $post[signature]
   </div>
  <!-- / sig -->

4. In Main CSS go to the bottom at Additional CSS Definitions and add code bit:

.hidesig  {
  width:700px;
  height:400px;
  overflow:hidden;
  }

5. Change the width "700px" and height "400px" to whatever you want. Signatures (text or image) that exceed either width or height limit will be cut off. This code does not affect the message Table. Keep the remaining codes the same.

*If the center tag doesn't work in the signature after implementing the code above see this post for the solution.

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B) For vBAdvanced Newsbits:

2. In your vBadvanced CMPS Templates --> adv_portal_newsbits template find this or something similar to:

  $news[message]

Replace it with:

  <!-- message -->
                <div class="hideadvnews">
  $news[message]
                </div>
  <!-- / message -->

4. In Main CSS go to the bottom at Additional CSS Definitions and add code bit:

.hideadvnews {
  width:700px;
  padding-bottom:20px;
  overflow:auto;
  overflow-x:auto;
  overflow-y:hidden;
  }

5. Change the width "700px" to whatever you want. All other settings keep.

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C) For vBAdvanced Newsbits (Signature):

2. In your vBadvanced CMPS Templates --> adv_portal_newsbits template find this or something similar to:

  <if condition="$show['signature']">
  <div>__________________<br />
  $news[signature]</div>
  </if>

Replace it with:

  <if condition="$show['signature']">
  <div class="hideadvsig">__________________<br />
  $news[signature]</div>
  </if>

4. In Main CSS go to the bottom at Additional CSS Definitions and add code bit:

.hideadvsig  {
  width:700px;
  height:400px;
  overflow:hidden;
  }

5. Change the width "700px" and height "400px" to whatever you want. Signatures (text or image) that exceed either width or height limit will be cut off. This code does not affect the vBadvanced message Table. Keep the remaining codes the same.

*If the center tag doesn't work in the signature after implementing the code above see this post for the solution.

Finished (Once More)!

7. Click if you use it.

[MissKalunji]

Nice!

[MissKalunji]

it would be nice if you put all that in a txt so we can download

[CyberAlien]

You should use "class", not "id" for those <div> elements. That template is repeated for every post, so you'll have several divs with same id but every id should be unique so your code isn't correct. And you don't need additional div at all - just add class to existing div.

[Freesteyelz]

Originally Posted by MissKalunji

it would be nice if you put all that in a txt so we can download

I'll work on it.

[Freesteyelz]

Originally Posted by CyberAlien

You should use "class", not "id" for those <div> elements. That template is repeated for every post, so you'll have several divs with same id but every id should be unique so your code isn't correct. And you don't need additional div at all - just add class to existing div.

Each ID is unique. Only the front name "hide" remains the same. The reason I didn't use class is that some users, like myself, add additional (and/or common) values to the existing <div> element (e.g., <div id="hidemsg" class="whatever">). The way this modification was written, each modification is independent from one another. This gives the user full control how he/she want to display the messages, signatures, vBadvanced messages and vBadvanced signatures. I just copied and pasted lines of code to make it simple to understand. So the codes are correct.

In the CSS rule, "ID's" can be repeated but "class" cannot within an element.

[CyberAlien]

Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

In the CSS rule, "ID's" can be repeated but "class" cannot within an element.

You are confusing those parameters. "class" can be repeated as many times as you want, "id" must be unique per document.
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.2

[Freesteyelz]

That's not quite what I meant but I see where you're coming from. In W3C standards you can list similiar ID's such as (e.g., hide1, hide2, hide3, etc...) in the same document. The reason for this is to separate each one from one another. The class element brings common attributes/values into the unique ID's. That's where redundancy of the "class" is usefull.

In the modification I chose (ID's): hidemsg, hidesig, hideadvnews, hideadvsig. All in which are unique. I can now add "class" into the element if I chose to. To test, give each of the 4 modification different values. They will all behave independently from one another.

[CyberAlien]

That template is used for every post in thread, so those ids are repeated as many times as many posts are shown, so ids are not unique.

[Freesteyelz]

Interesting point in which I had not considered. Updating now...

[Freesteyelz]

Thank you CyberAlien for sticking with me on this mod. I've made the corrections on both install instructions.

*I sent an update to those who've installed this mod prior to the change.