The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

add a background image to your navbits · **Released**: 03-18-2009

Just a simple mod that will allow you to add a background image to your navbit table, as per this request.

in your navbar template find the first instance of:

Code:

<td class="alt1" width="100%">

and replace with:

Code:

<td class="altbg" width="100%">

and add this css to your additional css definitions at the bottom of your main css page

Code:

.altbg {
    background: #FFFFFF url(wherever your image is located.gif) no-repeat top left; 
    height: 54px;
    width: 100%;
    vertical-align: text-bottom;
}

Remember to replace the RED writing with where your navbits background image is located, and you can change the background color (the blue text) from #FFFFFF to any colour you want for example if you have a black skin use #000000. If your using the original Navbar then an image height of 60px is a good size.

This is my first mod so please go gentle

screenshot:

Update:

As some of you were asking how to have this image stretch through your welcome back column also here's how i've done it:

in your navbar template find:

Code:

<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

and replace with:

Code:

<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->
<table class="altbg" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

next find:

Code:

<td class="alt1" width="100%">
  <if condition="is_array($navbits)">

and replace with:

Code:

<td width="100%">
  <if condition="is_array($navbits)">

next find:

Code:

<if condition="$show['member']">
 <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">

and replace with:

Code:

<if condition="$show['member']">
 <td nowrap="nowrap">

next find:

Code:

<else />
<td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:0px">
  <!-- login form -->

and replace with:

Code:

<else />
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="padding:0px">
  <!-- login form -->

now because we have removed the tborder css attribute we need to add it to out altbg css so, add this to your css if you want to strech your image:

Code:

.altbg {
    background: #FFFFFF url(streetrod/misc/navbits_bg.gif) repeat-x top left; 
    height: 54px;
    width: 100%;
    vertical-align: text-bottom;
    border: 1px solid #0B198C;
}

and replace the code in red with your desired border colour and the blue with the desired background colour

screensot of streched image:

all done hope this helps!

PLEASE NOTE THE BACKGROUND IMAGE SIZE WILL REMAIN CONSTANT, MEANING IT WILL NOT CHANGE WITH YOUR BROWSER SIZE, ALL THAT WILL HAPPEN IS THE CELL WILL CHANGE SIZE AND EITHER LOOSE SOME OF THE IMAGE OR FILL WITH THE BACKGROUND COLOUR, THE IMAGE SIZE ALL DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE IMAGE YOU'VE CREATED, THEREFOR IF ITS eg 468 WIDE AFTER THE CELL IS LESS THAN 468PX WIDE IT WILL CLIP YOUR BACKGROUND IMAGE, I HOPE THIS CLARIFY'S THINGS A BIT

jkcerda · #82 07-24-2009, 04:57 AM

cool, will give it a try

dsotmoon · #83 08-08-2009, 09:04 PM

installed and working great! thanks for the mod

can anyone tell me how to use this mod so that I can use multiple images that rotate on each page load?

Keesa · #84 08-14-2009, 01:26 AM

Never mind. User Headspace Error.

tipoboy · #85 08-14-2009, 08:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dsotmoon

installed and working great! thanks for the mod

can anyone tell me how to use this mod so that I can use multiple images that rotate on each page load?

there are a few mods here at vborg that will allow you to use a random image with each refresh, the one i would suggest is by jaxel, found here,

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=212351

if you need help just drop me a pm

setishock · #86 08-16-2009, 05:46 AM

Tweaked the idea I got from this. See below.

setishock · #87 08-18-2009, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tipoboy

Updated: now added instructions on how to have it stretch through your welcome back pm column!

You sparked an idea I tried out and found it works. I thought I'd come back and share it.

The simplest way to get your image or color to go all the way across is to remember the right> "welcome" and the left> "directory path(bread crumbs)" are cells inside a table. You want to add the image or color to the table parameters so it covers the entire table background.
In the code below from the navbar template you keep the code in blue you added from the first part of his instructions. Then add the background code you see in red.

Code:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->
<table class="tborder" 
background="(http://)your.forum.name/path/to/your/image" 
cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="altbg" width="100%">
   <if condition="is_array($navbits)">
   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
   <tr valign="bottom">
    <td><a href="#" onclick="history.back(1); return false;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_back]" border="0" /></a></td>

Leave the () out of the url. I couldn't keep the url from parsing and messing up my code demo.
Now go to the .altbg in the additional CSS definitions and remove the entire background statement. Leave the height, width, and text align statements.
When you're done you get some thing like what I have in the navbar in this theme I'm working on:
http://animeappeal.com/forums/index.php?styleid=47

tipoboy · #88 08-18-2009, 09:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by setishock

You sparked an idea I tried out and found it works. I thought I'd come back and share it.

The simplest way to get your image or color to go all the way across is to remember the right> "welcome" and the left> "directory path(bread crumbs)" are cells inside a table. You want to add the image or color to the table parameters so it covers the entire table background.
In the code below from the navbar template you keep the code in blue you added from the first part of his instructions. Then add the background code you see in red.

Code:

<br />
<!-- breadcrumb, login, pm info -->
<table class="tborder" 
background="(http://)your.forum.name/path/to/your/image" 
cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tr>
<td class="altbg" width="100%">
   <if condition="is_array($navbits)">
   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
   <tr valign="bottom">
    <td><a href="#" onclick="history.back(1); return false;"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/navbits_start.gif" alt="$vbphrase[go_back]" border="0" /></a></td>

Leave the () out of the url. I couldn't keep the url from parsing and messing up my code demo.
Now go to the .altbg in the additional CSS definitions and remove the entire background statement. Leave the height, width, and text align statements.
When you're done you get some thing like what I have in the navbar in this theme I'm working on:
http://animeappeal.com/forums/index.php?styleid=47

if you do it that way i dont think the code will validate corectly, what you could do is set up a new CSS class to define the table or row background, then use the background attribute there and this should be xhtml valid, if you want to discuss it further i'd be happy to, please pm me

mgcom · #89 10-18-2009, 05:45 PM

love it, mine is fine in IE but a bit banjoed in FF

Thanks anyway

mgcom · #90 10-19-2009, 08:14 PM

got it working in FF but two requests

1. is it possible that the image can link to a url?

2. can i push the image over to the complete right ?

Please and thanks

ahmedipa · #91 10-20-2009, 05:56 AM

very good thing thank you very much

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.06556 seconds Memory Usage 2,346KB Queries Executed 26 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)SHOWTHREAD (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (1)ad_showthread_beforeqr (14)bbcode_code (3)bbcode_quote (1)footer (1)forumjump (1)forumrules (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (1)modsystem_post (1)navbar (4)navbar_link (120)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (3)pagenav_pagelink (11)post_thanks_box (11)post_thanks_button (1)post_thanks_javascript (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (11)post_thanks_postbit_info (10)postbit (11)postbit_onlinestatus (11)postbit_wrapper (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open (1)tagbit_wrapper Phrase Groups Available: global inlinemod postbit posting reputationlevel showthread	Included Files: ./showthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php ./includes/class_postbit.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_reputation.php ./includes/functions_post_thanks.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete showthread_start showthread_getinfo forumjump showthread_post_start showthread_query_postids showthread_query bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create showthread_postbit_create postbit_factory postbit_display_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_start post_thanks_function_post_thanks_off_end post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_start post_thanks_function_fetch_thanks_end post_thanks_function_thanked_already_start post_thanks_function_thanked_already_end fetch_musername postbit_imicons bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete postbit_display_complete post_thanks_function_can_thank_this_post_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete tag_fetchbit_complete forumrules navbits navbits_complete showthread_complete
Messages:

The Arcive of Official vBulletin Modifications Site.

It is not a VB3 engine, just a parsed copy!