Better Similar Threads Placement

open showthread.php and before

PHP Code:

eval('$similarthreads = "' . fetch_template('showthread_similarthreads') . '";'); 


put

PHP Code:

$similar="1"; 


In showthread template, right before

</tr>
</table>
<!-- / toolbar -->

put

PHP Code:

<if condition="$similar==1"><td class="vbmenu_control"> <div id="similar" class="vbmenu_control"><a href="#similar">Similar Threads</a> <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("similar"); </script></div></td></if> 


and replace

$similarthreads
<br />

with that

PHP Code:

<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="similar_menu" style="display:none">
$similarthreads 
</div> 


[Slave]

Slight problem ..

I've got my styles as 100% width .. and I'm finding the Similar Threads dropdown is going past the browser width .. see the attachment to see what I mean ..

I've tried changing the width of the table .. but that doesn't seem to fix it.

Any ideas?

[Lionel]

Do you have a nowrap tag somewhere?

[TWTCommish]

Brilliant idea. I didn't like the clutter the Similar Threads box added, but this allows me to give my members the feature without eating up more screen space.

I'm having some mild display problems, though; the menu appears to jump around each time I hover over it...it never unfolds in the same place twice in a row. Anyone else having this problem?

[Slave]

Originally Posted by Lionel

Do you have a nowrap tag somewhere?

Hmm .. yeah I do have a couple ..

I'll try without them and see what happens ..

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by TWTCommish

Brilliant idea. I didn't like the clutter the Similar Threads box added, but this allows me to give my members the feature without eating up more screen space.

I'm having some mild display problems, though; the menu appears to jump around each time I hover over it...it never unfolds in the same place twice in a row. Anyone else having this problem?

why not try putting at the end of the similar template table a <tr><td><img src="invisible.gif" border="0" width="uptoyou" height="1"></td></tr> with the proper colspan?

[the Sandman]

Won't removing the similar threads from their usual location and putting them like this stop spiders from seeing them and thus hurt seo?

[TWTCommish]

Originally Posted by Lionel

why not try putting at the end of the similar template table a <tr><td><img src="invisible.gif" border="0" width="uptoyou" height="1"></td></tr> with the proper colspan?

Hm, tried it, and it fixed half the problem: it still shows up far on the left, but then I hover off, and then hover back on, and it moves to the right. It does this two or three times, but then it stays put underneath the link (whereas before, it would keep going right and then jump back to the left and repeat the whole thing). I'm probably explaining this in a pretty confusing way. Might help to see it in action:

http://www.movieforums.com/community...ead.php?t=8480

[Lionel]

Similars are threads that are being seen somewhere else. If you remove them all together spiders still will see those threads.

[Lionel]

Originally Posted by TWTCommish

Hm, tried it, and it fixed half the problem: it still shows up far on the left, but then I hover off, and then hover back on, and it moves to the right. It does this two or three times, but then it stays put underneath the link (whereas before, it would keep going right and then jump back to the left and repeat the whole thing). I'm probably explaining this in a pretty confusing way. Might help to see it in action:

http://www.movieforums.com/community...ead.php?t=8480

looks good to me the first try.

[TWTCommish]

Originally Posted by Lionel

looks good to me the first try.

Hmm...where's it intended to show up? On the left, or right underneath the menu? Mine starts on the left, then I click on one of the other menus, then click back on the Similar Threads menu and it's moved to the right. Does it move for you if you close the menu, then click on it again?