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[HOW TO - vB4] Two column forum/sub-forum setup via CSS only
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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CSS will work on any html page. You would have to adjust the class names though for 3.8.6 and I have not looked into how that would be.
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Thanks for the article enjoyed it... Make sure you have a great day.
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Thank you...Installed.
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Thx Lynne!
For those who wants to remove "Sub-forums:" text just add: PHP Code:
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Making the subforum name bold when a new post is made to it? Also, adding the thread/postcounts to each subforum title?
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You'll need to ask about this in the main forums as it has nothing to do with writing CSS to make a two column layout.
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Quote:
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http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/508/bwtb.jpg << Demo Link what i really want... Hey Guys I been trying to do this on my site.. I am having really hard time making my forums display like this... Is there anyway I can display 5 side to side forums... and also its depends upon the size of monitor the person has.... So if u have 13 inch monitor u will see 3 columns and if u have 15 inch monitor u will see 5 columns.. Please help me out asap waiting for response |
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That will require some code, not just css.
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