Dealing with long signatures

[Logician]

I think you haven't noticed the vb option "Maximum Length of Signature" in your admin cp?

[zajako]

this doesnt help with people having large, or many images in signitures though :/ doesnt help me much, but thanks

[drumsy]

Hmmm, so if I wanted to limit font size in signatures, I could use this query by changing 100 to 1? Would I run this query via the AdminCP?

[Spinball]

Originally Posted by Logician

I think you haven't noticed the vb option "Maximum Length of Signature" in your admin cp?

Well no, actually I had overlooked that. It was set to 500 and I've dropped it to 100. Still for existing users it's useful. And for people with forums where they want people to have lengthier sigs.

Originally Posted by drumsy

Hmmm, so if I wanted to limit font size in signatures, I could use this query by changing 100 to 1? Would I run this query via the AdminCP?

Well putting the size tag around all signatures will make them longer by 14 characters. So there's little point in doing it on sigs below, say, 30 characters.
I have never run queries in the admnicp since I use phpmyadmin but I guess you could.
Definitely backup your usertextfield table first.

[Logikos]

I find this more useful, its what i use on my forums. Cuts long sigs out.

<div style="width: 500px; height: 135px; overflow: hidden;">
				$post[signature]
</div>

[Spinball]

Can you please indicate where you put this?
I tried it in postbit here :

		<!-- sig -->
			<div style="width: 500px; height: 50px; overflow: hidden;">
				__________________<br />
				$post[signature]
			</div>
		<!-- / sig -->

and it didn't make the slightest bit of difference.

[Logikos]

In your postbit, or postbit_legacy find:

                <if condition="$post['signature']">
                <!-- sig -->
                        <div>
                                __________________<br />
                                $post[signature]
                        </div>
                <!-- / sig -->
                </if>

And replace with:

                <if condition="$post['signature']">
                <!-- sig -->
                        <div>
                                __________________<br />
<div style="width: 500px; height: 135px; overflow: hidden;">
                                $post[signature]
</div>
                        </div>
                <!-- / sig -->
                </if>

Then test it. Change the width and height to your convience.

[Abe Babe]

I've been trying to get the div overflow method working for many months now ... both now that one of my forums is on vBulletin and before when it was on Invisionboard.

The problem I find is that it works with Mozilla/Firefox, but not with IE. If there were a way to get it working with both browsers, it would be great. Most users still stick with IE, so they are the ones you want to have it working for. And my mods keep moaning about signature problems, I don't even want anything complex to limit them, just something simple like that would be ideal.

Abe Babe...

[Logikos]

Originally Posted by Abe Babe

I've been trying to get the div overflow method working for many months now ... both now that one of my forums is on vBulletin and before when it was on Invisionboard.

The problem I find is that it works with Mozilla/Firefox, but not with IE. If there were a way to get it working with both browsers, it would be great. Most users still stick with IE, so they are the ones you want to have it working for. And my mods keep moaning about signature problems, I don't even want anything complex to limit them, just something simple like that would be ideal.

Abe Babe...

I don't understand. whats the problem? I've been using this https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....36&postcount=8 at www.vbhacks.us and it works on all browsers and with no problems.