Spacing or padding around article blocks

[Renegd98]

I keep hearing you talk about iframes. what are you forcing into iframes?  Are you putting your blocks into iframes for some reason? With the default theme I see no scroll bar at the bottom but the site of course looks very different.  The right panel needs the width changed some to get rid of the srollbar on the bottom of it.

The center content should be centered. What kind of block do you have the center content in? Can you paste the code you use for it. Then some of our code guru's could look at it. I do not believe that TP3 is the culprit here.. I think some of the code you are using is causing issues.


Edit:  you will need to add a theme block so we can change themes.

[ZarPrime]

I agree with Renegd on this.  Add about 10 pixels to the width of your right panel, and then center the content of whatever your content is in the middle and let's see what it looks like then.

ZarPrime

[ZarPrime]

There's got to be something else going on here as well.  The menu buttons on the default theme aren't showing up right.  Got any strange mods installed that might be causing this?

When using theme #2, no scroll bars show up anywhere.  In your dark theme, is there a setting in "current theme" for width of Forum?  If so, switch back to that dark theme, set the Forum to show 100% and let us see what it looks like.

ZarPrime

EDIT:  I meant on the TP General Settings set FrontPage width to be zero for 100%.

[Renegd98]

Agreed.. something weird, not associated I don't believe with the TP3 install.

Yep, the default theme has issues as stated by Zarprime. Go to the forums and they look Ok, except the footer is still there with a left alignment.

Is the panel on the left a TP panel or is it a hard coded left panel/column?

[Renegd98]

Interesting enough on the default theme only the blocks on the right panel that have custom code in them have the scroll bars. So changing the right width should fix that I believe.

[Dianna]

Renegd, yes it's only the right column that use iframes that get the scroll. 

Yes, I'm putting all the html bocks and articles into iframes. I like being able to tweak my site in my golive and then just drop the changes to the serves. I love the use of the iframes. I'll play with the sizing again and see if I can fix it. 

The center body part is where I was having the issue of it not centered and the article sits lower than it should be. That's why I upgraded to beta3 so you could look at the cell spacing/padding issue on the article pages/html pages of my site. I changed the color back to black and you can see the article block in the shade of gray. I cannot find where this spacing or padding is at to change it. That has been my frustrating issue to resolve. 

I think on the default theme it looks like the menu items are gone because I must have the font color to WHITE for some reason. So the menu is there in default. I can go change that back to black and then I can add a themebox for you to use. 

The my BIGGEST problem that is of critical concern right now is why my firefox is crashing on my mac now with the new install.  Do I need to remove any of those files that I've listed above from beta1? 

I'll come back after I fix the font and the themebox and let you know that part is done.

[Renegd98]

root directory:
I have FCKeditor and Wysiwig from beta1  - Not needed with Beta 3 but you can leave if you want. I would rename directory if you leave it by adding _old to the end.

/tp-downloads
.htaccess file from beta1 is still there -  how do you know it is from Beta 1? Safe to leave.

/tp-files/fonts
.htaccess file from beta1 is still there - how do you know it is from Beta 1? Safe to leave.


/tp-files/tp-modules[/color]
I had the advanced TP Shout folder and .xml so I just removed it, I may have removed it before you guys looked at the site, I'm going to try to open the site again on my mac right now. - Good, not needed

And I have some TPtestmodule folder with a bunch of files in it and plus it's .xml file, haven't removed it yet - I've never looked at that directory but I have them too, so leave it.

/tp-files/tp-plugins
I had a themeshop_plug.xml and tpdlmanager_plug.xml from beta1 - how do you know it is from Beta 1? Safe to leave.

Let us know about the width change if it helps.

I am not a php/html coder/guru but I think using the Iframes in the blocks may cause issues.  There are ways to control the output without the iframes.. but I request a code smart member address this.

If someone notices something wrong in the above, please correct me.

[Dianna]

Okay, thanks from above. I don't know that some of those things are from beta1 so just ignore that. It's just not in the beta3 folder. 

I've just installed a theme box but the box says no themes selected. I haven't used a themebox and don't plan to with my site, what do I need to do to make the themes show up for you? 

I have it set to allow members to choose their own themes.

[Renegd98]

No need for the theme box, I can use index?theme=x to change the theme so you can delete the theme box.

Did you change the width of the right panel?  ADMIN --> Panels and Blocks --> Panels

[Dianna]

haven't changed the size yet, I was making that themebox. LOL  I'll go try it now.