[pastorbobsforum]

Hello.

Why would one table come up ok (latest), but forumlist would look like this? http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac166/nobody5973/screenshot_003.png

This is what I have in style.css

#latest, #forumlist, #favorites {

background-color: #f7f7f7;

margin-bottom: 3em;

width: auto;}

Isn’t the wrapper in the body supposed to *wrap* things up nicely?

#wrapper {

margin: 0 0 0 0;

background: #fff;

width: 850px;

padding: 0 20px;}

I hope that people have been confronted with this issue before and successfully overcame it,

Thank you.

Bob

[kevinjohngallagher]

style.css line 697

.num, #forumlist small {

font:11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align:center;

white-space:nowrap;

}

You need to remove the line in bold

[pastorbobsforum]

Kevin, you’re the man! Worked like a glove. I had no clue where to look.

Mind you, how did you know my line nr?

Thank you.

Regards,

Bob

[pastorbobsforum]

Hello again.

I’m back to the unwrapping issue again.

Even though I’ve got .num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

} forumlist is still unwrapped, as in the screenshot.

http://i896.photobucket.com/albums/ac166/nobody5973/screenshot_003.png

Any ideas?

Bob

[kevinjohngallagher]

line 703 mate

.num, #forumlist small {

font:11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align:center;

white-space:nowrap;

}

[pastorbobsforum]

OK, but it’s not working. I don’t think that the line nr matters that much, does it?

Anyway, I’ll post everything that involves my forumlist from my stylesheet here, to prove that I did exactly what you’ve suggested.

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

#latest td, #forumlist td, #favorites td { padding: 5px 10px; }

#forumlist tr td div.nest {

padding-left: 2.5ex;

}

#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover { background-color: #d8dcf2; }

#latest th, #forumlist th, #favorites th {

text-align: left;

background-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

font-weight: normal;

padding: 5px 9px;

color: rgb(255, 255, 255);

}

#latest th a, #forumlist th a, #favorites th a {

color: rgb(200, 200, 200);

font-style: italic;

}

#latest th a:hover, #forumlist th a:hover, #favorites th a:hover {

color: rgb(255, 255, 255);

}

#latest, #forumlist, #favorites {<br />

background-color: #f7f7f7;<br />

margin-bottom: 3em;<br />

}</p>

<p>#latest, #forumlist {<br />

margin-top: -0.9em;<br />

padding-right: 10px;

I hope that it is of some use.

Bob

[_ck_]

You could try the lazy way and force a CSS override.

white-space: wrap !important;

Basically in one of the earlier or later rules you have nowrap set.

make certain you have a closing } though on this block

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}     <<<<<

missing ?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Pastor Bob,

Apologies you were getting my quick/little-explanation replies this morning.

The Line Numbers aren’t important at all, its jsut to give you a quick indication of where things were.

Here’s the crux of the issue, this CSS command white-space:nowrap; overwrites any Styling you specify in the stylesheets by the HTML conent.

Its something I would remove compeltely from your stylesheets if possible.

[pastorbobsforum]

Hello.

Firstly, thank you for your responses.

@_ck_

I’ve tried white-space: wrap !important; with no effect unfortunately.Thank you for you Polls and Instant Password plugins. I admire the practical approach.

The “}” has been simply overlooked when I pasted in the lines. It exists in my style.css

@kevin

Your explanations were very good, since I got it working once. But now it isn’t any more. The only thing that I have installed afterwards was the BBcode Buttons Toolbar plugin, but even after having deactivated it, things are still the same.

I found this piece of advice though, http://www.devcomments.com/Display-Sub-forum-on-2-or-mocolumns-to17176.htm , but now I cannot seem to find functions_display.php , so I can try this man’s idea as well.

Bob

[_ck_]

Somewhere on your page or in your stylesheets the word NOWRAP appears.

So do a view source and search for NOWRAP.

Then look in style.css for NOWRAP

Somewhere, one of them is causing the trouble.

Another nasty workaround might be

.num, #forumlist small {

overflow:hidden;

max-width:400px;

but I highly recommend finding the real source of the problem.

[pastorbobsforum]

Hello.

I managed to identify my problem. Both your advices worked perfectly, it was my lack of attention to be blamed here.

When I was uploading the file via FTP (filezilla) I wasn’t paying attention to the new file size on the server (which proved to be different – smaller – than the one that was being uploaded). I know that I have the possibility to compare them, so I would have spotted this much earlier but…

After I’ve changed the permissions again (755, an issue that I had before) and uploaded it from their (the server’s) file manager, things turned out just fine.

@kevin

I thought that you had a way of *getting* my line number, even if I was modifying my style.css, since you’ve quoted it so accurately. I understand that the main use is referential. Which is good!

The only reference to white-space:nowrap; was at 697, as you said, and I have removed it.

Are this guy’s suggestions ( http://www.devcomments.com/Display-Sub-forum-on-2-or-mocolumns-to17176.htm ) of any use? And if yes, I go back to my question from my last post, where can we find functions_display.php?

Thank you once again.

Regards,

Bob

[_ck_]

Ah the problem is fixed now, found the site via google.

The page you are linking to for suggestions is for vbulletin which is an entirely different forum program.

[pastorbobsforum]

I stand corrected, again. I missed the bit “Home >> Web forums >> Vbulletin >> May, 2009″.

No wonder…

Thank you.

Bob