Spacing or padding around article blocks

[Dianna]

Okay, let me go make them now. I'm a dork, I had the FRAME scrolled over to the right so the gray border isn't hiding anything on the page. So that change didn't do anything.  Okay, let me go make these. :-) 

What other things can that change affect? 

Sorry again G6, I'm tired, lazy..
ETA:  Ewwwwww, that is sooooooo close!  I could actually live with that.  I need to backtrack though in this thread to what we removed when it moved the padding over to the right. If I can move that back over, it will be centered and I think I can live with it.  I can put the frame on it so it will put a border on it and just go with it.

What do you think?  Or do you think you can get it even closer?  I can go either way. It doesn't look too bad.

[Dianna]

Take a look in the TPBlocksLayout.template.php file. About line 123 for this code:

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echo '
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<tr>';

Change the padding to 0 and see if it helps.

This is what I could add back in to get the gray area centered again. Unless you know how to remove more of the gray and I'll leave this alone and wait.

ETA:  Okay, I added this back in so it would move they gray border off of the right panel. 

[IchBin]

Ok, so what do you want then? I'm headed to bed in a moment, so i'll check on this tomorrow.

[Dianna]

Hey Ichbin, If you can shrink it more, that would be great, but if you can't, then at least it looks better now.  The space is even all the way around.  Just let me know if you can still shrink it up more.  Thanks for all of your help! 

[IchBin]

If you remove the
 tag I posted earlier it will pull it up.

[Dianna]

Hey Ichbin,

The more I look at the about page, the more I like the border the way it is now. It's all even around it and it does not look bad now.  It looks like it's on purpose.  I think I can live with it now and I actually like it.  So lets call it done!  I just need to shrink up my html pages some to fit, like I did on the About page. But that's no biggee.  It does look much better. 

The about page is how I'll get all of my pages to look.  It looks pretty good.  I can live with the grey that is there now.

Thank you soooooooooooo much for your help!!!  I really appreciate it!

And thanks again to zarprime and renegade, JPDeni, G6 and anyone else who have taken time to help me on this!  I really appreciate it!!!! 

[Dianna]

Hey you guys!  I wanted to come back to this topic to let you guys that I figured out a WORK-AROUND for that mystery article background/spacing/padding bug. 

I figured out a work around to PUSH the mystery padding/background to the bottom of the page so it's out of the way and not as conspicuous.

What I did was odd but worked. I made all of my articles but put NO CONTENT into the articles. Then I put my actual article content into UPPER PANELS! So the blank article is where the mystery padding is at so the upper panel pushes it down to the bottom of the page.

Of course I had to click on the show each upper panel to only show on its respective article page!!! 

Take a look at my pages and check it out.  www.schreeandbaby.com!  You'll see the mystery gray padding sitting at the bottom of the pages and not standing out anymore. I can deal with that! :-)

My site FINALLY went live! YAYY! Thanks for all your help!!