What's Going On Box issue...

[Sin City]

I made a matrix style from scratch back on vB 3.0... now i am converting it all to 3.5.2 and figured i'd fix some things up that i never addressed in the previous version... i've decided to add the "view forum leaders" and "mark forums read" options to the bottom of my What's Going On box (which has been modified to have a top and bottom "bar")... my problem is illustrated below...


http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4972/screenln0.jpg



and here is my coding...

PHP Code:

<!-- bottom -->
    <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
    <tr>
<td style="text-align: $stylevar[left]" class="tcat"><img src="http://www.site.com/forum/matrix/matcat_bottomleft.gif" alt="" /></td>
<td class="mcat" align="center" style="background-image: url(http://www.site.com/forum/matrix/matrixborderbgbottom.gif); text-align: center;"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
            <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
            &nbsp; &nbsp;
            <a href="showgroups.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a>
        </strong></div></td>
<td style="text-align: $stylevar[right]" class="tcat"><img src="http://www.site.com/forum/matrix/matcat_bottomright.gif" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
   <!-- /bottom -->

<br />
<!-- end what's going on box --> 


any help would be appreciated... thanks in advance

[Sin City]

bump

[Sin City]

bump again

[ZacUSNYR]

Find:

<td class="mcat" align="center" style="background-image: url(http://www.site.com/forum/matrix/matrixborderbgbottom.gif); text-align: center;"><div class="smallfont"><strong>

Try:

<td class="mcat" align="center" width="100%" style="background-image: url(http://www.site.com/forum/matrix/matrixborderbgbottom.gif); text-align: center;"><div class="smallfont"><strong>

[Sin City]

i actually thought about adding the width code, but figured i'd ask first... worked great... thanks

[ZacUSNYR]

doh! moment for me - I didn't even see your style tag you had in there.

Try doing it with width:100% in the style tag instead of width="100%"

<td class="mcat" align="center" style="background-image: url(http://www.site.com/forum/matrix/matrixborderbgbottom.gif); text-align: center; width:100%"><div class="smallfont"><strong>

[Sin City]

thank you again... since you seem to be rather knowledgable... mind if i ask you another question?... if you look at the image i have in the first post, i obviously am using three different images for the bar... a left, middle, and right graphic... do you know how i could do that for the "category strips" in the Style Options?... i ask because certain places (like View Forum Leaders) use that and it obviously doesn't look right with everything else without all three images

[ZacUSNYR]

You'd need to add the images the same way you constructed the bar - only problem is the collapse button is an img as well so you'd need to make the side images background and specify height/width of the block.

I just took a quick look at the original code on my site and this looks like it'd get you where you want to be.

forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost template will have the info you're looking for. Remember to subtract 2 from each colspan (it colspans per a vboption - 5 cells or if show moderators 6). Then add your new columns to the beginning and the end.