Thread Title in Action Bar

[Ryan Roos]

I find that a lot of the time I get distracted while reading a thread and then forget which thread I'm in. This isn't a problem unless I've scrolled down, which is most of the time. So in reality this is usually a problem for me.

I introduce the Thread Title in Action Bar mod.

You'll never guess what it does? It places the thread title into the action bar. Amazing, I know.

I had originally planned to unveil this as part of a plugin we're working on, but I actually think I'll just include a much better version of it when we get around to that. I in no way claim this is the best way to do this, in fact, I'm certain it is not. However you may feel free to modify it as you wish and if you make a better version include it as a response to this.

First modify the line in your Layout Template > Thread

$[pagination]

to be

$[pagination]<div class="thread-title">$[thread.subject]</div>

Then at the bottom of your style sheet for the same theme paste this.

.thread-title {
   float: right;
   padding-top:10px;
   font-size: 14px;
   font-weight:bold;
   text-align: center;
   width: 42%;
color:@pagination_text_color;
overflow:hidden;
}

Feel free to modify that to whatever colors and styles work best for you. You may want to mess with the width depending on your forum, though I found the 42% to work great in most cases I tried.

GLHF

[Speed33]

To differentiate the actual thread title in the title bar to the action bar designation I added the word Thread to the script like this:



$[pagination]<div class="thread-title">$[thread.subject] Thread</div>



with a space between the closing bracket and the letter T.

[pawl]

Added to the Index. =]

[®i©hie]

Very Nice Ryan Roos

[aRMY83]

Now this is nice Ryan.

[rallynavigator]

First time at adjusting the template and this appears. Have I put it into the wrong section. Script removed and all ok again.

[triplew64]

Awesome. I was wondering at first what were you talking about. So I just tried it on a theme and wow. Pretty slick and very useful. Thanks for putting this together.

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

Hi Ryan Roos this doesn't appear to work properly when you have a lot of posts/pages in the thread and so the pagination to the left is extended - it pushes the title down onto a second line and to the right - I've attached a pic. It's the same thing in Safari and Firefox so I don't think it's a browser issue

On threads where there is only the 1 or 2 pages of posts , it's fine

Any idea if it can be fixed so the title stays pretty much central relative to the thread on longer threads?

Thanks

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[LifeOfWylie]

Jan 22, 2013 1:58:31 GMT -8 My Name is Billy Moonstone said:

Any idea if it can be fixed so the title stays pretty much central relative to the thread on longer threads? 

Like Ryan Roos said:

Dec 26, 2012 14:44:20 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Feel free to modify that to whatever colors and styles work best for you. You may want to mess with the width depending on your forum, though I found the 42% to work great in most cases I tried.

You have to to test the adjustments. Mine did the same on a 10-pager and I set my width at around 30%. Worst case scenario: Shorten your thread titles. If it helps have the thread in question open while editing the width in CSS. Save, then reload the thread to quickly check this.

[pawl]

You can also reduce the size of the font in the CSS, to give yourself a little extra room. =]