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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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 Posted - 12 July 2002 : 10:15:55
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I get bugged by the smallest things, so I found a solution to one problem I encountered on my forums: replies that are shorter than the text in the left-side cell on topic.asp don't have the "to top of page" icon aligned to the bottom of the row.
Solution: add a height value of 100% to the right-side cell, insert a table with 3 rows (makes it look nicer IMO but two will do) like this:
row 1: post icons (homepage, e-mail, IP etc)
row 2, valign="top" height="100%": the message
row 3, align="right" valign="bottom" height="20": the "to top of page" icon
After that it'll all work great. Even a reply with only a smiley or "thanks" will appear correctly.
It's only a small change but makes topic.asp look a lot nicer, so if it's not in the base code of 3.4 already, could that please be added?
Roland
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 10:24:23
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Wow, I must be going crazy, could have sworn I saw two copies of this paot a minute ago 
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 10:26:29
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lmao... yeah I messed up. I haven't had much sleep or coffee the last couple days so my hands are shaky and using a pen instead of a mouse doesn't make things better.
But, what about my idea? Do you think it's worth adding to 3.4?
Roland
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2002 : 10:53:22
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yes I would guess so, Richard ahs the code, but I would imagine he would add something as simple as this
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Steve D.
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 10:56:33
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I did the same thing to my topics page, but I also seperated out the icons from the top row and put some in the bottom row as well. I found it easier to understand. This is similar to a layout I saw on a phpbb board.
In the top row I included just the icons for things pertaining to just this message such as Edit, Quote, IP, Delete
In the middle row I included the message
In the bottom row I included on the left side all the user specific icons Profile, E-Mail, Webpage, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, etc.. and on the right the to Top of Page icon.
for a sample check http://www.itsallswing.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=57
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2002 : 11:13:33
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That's not what I mean. I keep the look the same by adding a table to the right-side cell (the one containing the information I want to seperate). What you've done is added an extra row, put a table in there with two cells and put the icons in there.
To me, that doesn't look right... I mean having some of those icons below the cell with the author's information. But to each his own
It'd be really simple to move those icons to the same line as the "top of page" icon using "my" method too.. Just add colspan="2" to the first row (or two if you use 3 rows like me). Then add an extra cell to the bottom row and put the icons in the left one.
Roland
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Steve D.
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 12:16:59
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I guess what I meant to say was ...
"I did something similar to my topics page"
After looking at your solution, I may play with that suggestion about putting the icons under the message only.
And I do agree to each his own.
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 15:18:24
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yes I would guess so, Richard ahs the code, but I would imagine he would add something as simple as this
Added it for the replies. Should we add it for topics as well, to be consistent? |
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Nikkol
Forum Moderator
USA
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 15:30:10
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and another row for dynamic sigs??? don't know how you're handling dynamic sigs in 3.4
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 12 July 2002 : 16:04:04
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yes I would guess so, Richard ahs the code, but I would imagine he would add something as simple as this
Added it for the replies. Should we add it for topics as well, to be consistent?
Hmm... well if you're using dynamic signatures, it makes most sense to put it in there too. Otherwise it's not necessary as there is no "top of page" icon in the original post.
Roland
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Steve D.
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 17:32:11
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It'd be really simple to move those icons to the same line as the "top of page" icon using "my" method too.. Just add colspan="2" to the first row (or two if you use 3 rows like me). Then add an extra cell to the bottom row and put the icons in the left one.
I took your suggestion and fixed my topics page the same way you did yours, but still with my icon arrangements.
Thanks for the suggestion, I like the looks much better!
http://www.itsallswing.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=57
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 17:41:00
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I took your suggestion and fixed my topics page the same way you did yours, but still with my icon arrangements.
Thanks for the suggestion, I like the looks much better!
Makes more sense if the icons are right below the message, doesn't it? 
Roland
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Steve D.
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 12 July 2002 : 17:47:57
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Definitely.
I was going to address this when updating to 3.4, but since you already had a fix handy, why not.
Thanks again.
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