Sidebar Redux

[Entris]

Brian is there anyway to get the sidebars to stay aligned when you go into the boards to compensate for the missing news fader?

ATM they are aligned with the forum itself but when i click a board and when i am in a thread the sidebars are not aligned anymore because the news fader doesn't show there.
NVM I solved it by aligning the second box with the end of the banner instead looks good that way too imo at least lol Tyvm for your help.

[Brian]

Jan 22, 2013 7:13:48 GMT -8 Serenitystar said:

Hi Brian Ordonez,

I seem to be having a problem with your side tables. Whenever I enable the tables the forum alignment goes crazy and cuts off half my banner, even when there's still plenty of room to expand to the right. Is there a way to move everything to the far left so that this does not occur? I've tried playing around with the spacing, but nothing seems to work. Thanks.

hiddeninthestars.freemessageboards.com/

Either reduce the height of your banner area to shrink it down to the new size or increase the width of your forum to compensate for the width the sidebar took away.

Everything is contained within the wrapper, which determines your forum's width. So when content is added to that, it has to be squeezed in.

[Maiden]

New sidebar is wonderful.

Two questions

1. Is it possible to put a little padding between the content box and the top of the page? (merely for aesthetics as I've got rounded corners so unlike pagination it looks a bit odd stuck to the top)

2. Is it possible to make only one content box be fixed? (and the the one above it stay still scroll out of view)

[Brian]

Jan 21, 2013 16:34:11 GMT -8 Serpent said:

Okay so when I put the new version on my site, and copied over the data exactly the way it was, the first box comes out blank.. I'm not sure why.. well not blank but the text is white font and double spaced

Link: crime-punishment.freeforums.net/

Change the ID of that sidebar to something other than welcome. That ID is already in use by the welcome message in the menu bar and has a white font, causing it to blend in with your background.

Jan 22, 2013 8:49:09 GMT -8 Maiden said:

New sidebar is wonderful.

Two questions

1. Is it possible to put a little padding between the content box and the top of the page? (merely for aesthetics as I've got rounded corners so unlike pagination it looks a bit odd stuck to the top)

2. Is it possible to make only one content box be fixed? (and the the one above it stay still scroll out of view)

If you want to space any of your boxes from each other or the top of the page, add margin-top: 10px; to the CSS of the box you want to apply the margin to, substituting 10 for whatever number works.

The fixed positioning is dependent on the sidebar's container as a whole, so probably not. I'll have to play with this a bit to see if it's possible with the current version. I likely won't have plans to implement it in the future, as it would massively complicate an already complicated settings page.

[Maiden]

Thanks ^^

Being super picky (ie fixing this isn't actually important at all - and will go away if I can put an unfixed box above it ) that works perfectly with the scrolling

solariamock.freemessageboards.com/

but means that the box doesn't line up with the top of the banner when scrolled all the way up.


Clearly this is the hopefulness of the non-coder that the setting can simply be applied to one box rather than the whole sidebar lol.

Cheers Brian

[Serpent]

Thanks. That solved it. It was weird cause I copied everything including ids from the previous version. Oh well it works now. Thanks again

[Brian]

Jan 22, 2013 12:32:11 GMT -8 Serpent said:

Thanks. That solved it. It was weird cause I copied everything including ids from the previous version. Oh well it works now. Thanks again

The previous version of ProBoards didn't have anything in its default HTML with the ID welcome, so naturally that wasn't a problem before conversion.

[Serpent]

I meant the last version of this sidebar....

[Brian]

D'oh. My bad.

[Brian]

My Name is Billy Moonstone, I've found out an easy fix you can do to fix the problem in Safari based on why the problem occurs. It seems to only happen when you first scroll on the page. Since the sidebars no longer exist, the code is still attempting to execute but is bugging out.

Add this to your Global Header to remedy that:

<script type="text/javascript">
// Homepage-only Sidebar Redux - Safari Resize Fix \\
if(proboards.data('route').name != "home") {
proboards.plugin.get('sidebar_redux').settings.left_enabled = 0;
proboards.plugin.get('sidebar_redux').settings.right_enabled = 0;
}
</script>

[My Name is Billy Moonstone]

THANK YOU SO MUCH Brian You're a life-saver! It works perfectly now on Safari and I tested it on FF and it's fine there too. I put the earlier bit of code into GH first, and then your bit here underneath that



Very happy 

[Maiden]

solariamock.freemessageboards.com/forum

Brian

I managed to get the text in the right place but inserting it into the build section of the plugin

Could you help me with the .CSS to make it look like a style 1 box please?

I guess I need to give it a div and an id?

[Brian]

Are you trying to do exactly what you asked earlier manually? I can't think of a way to do that as of yet since there's a lot of factors involved. For the most part the code relies on both the height and the position of the top of the left <td> element. I'll have to experiment with the rowspan attribute in the meantime to see if I can make it work somehow.

The end result will probably be a terrible Javascript code dependent on whether things in your layout exist or not, so don't expect anything too dynamic.

[Maiden]

Yea at the moment it seems to work perfectly function wise. (just need to put the about stuff in a box)

[Maiden]

Well almost lol, bit trippy now I've got a background colour on the box but it'll be fine Just struggling witht the styling. Am aiming for one of your stye 1 content boxes.

Got the right classes from your stuff in the build section so the box looks pretty.

But of course you are right the behaviour is a little odd.... when the scrolling gets to the top of the td the fixed bits jump up (I think)

Right behaviour, broke the layout....

To fix the layout I put the left sidebars in the footer.... and this broke the behaviour... lots of flickering...

solariamock.freemessageboards.com/forum

fixed the layout differently and it works! (as long as you don't scroll down so the bottom of the box touches the bottom border...... )