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    Posted: 19 April 2006 at 4:41pm
I have a forum which is being used with left frames...I'd like to resize the width of the overall forum size, where can I make the change? The default_style.css does not solve the problem as I tried all table width sizes on that file.

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It is the default_style.css file that controls the width of the tables used in the forum.

Most are set to 99% or 98%, but this could be chnaged to pixels if you wish. ie. 400px
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I tried changing them to 90... and I can see the change on the forum tables...but for some reason the page is still having scrolls at the bottom. If you have a minute you can see it here yourself...and click on Message Board. 
 
I'm using IE as most of my members use that browser.... with FF it looks fine.


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It looks like a very strange CSS bug in IE.

The only thing I can suggest is that you keep messing with the CSS till you find a result that works with your site in IE.

Loosing the frames may help, as frame are not good for search engine spidering and are being depreciated.
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it is the size of the Font: 12px
i set it to 10pt and fixed it!
 
I will grab the exact code tonight
 
but i worked for 5 hours last night trying to figure that booger out
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Here it is, this is what i changed:

/* Text for most CSS classes */
.text, .smText, .error, a, a.smLink, a.nav, a.msgLink, a.tLink, .WebWizRTEtextarea, .basicTable, .errorTable, .tableLedger, .tableSubLedger, .tableRow, .tableTopRow, .tableBottomRow, .evenTableRow, .oddTableRow, .hiddenTableRow, .PMtableRow, .PMmsgBody, .msgBody, .msgEvenTableRow, .msgOddTableRow, .msgHiddenTableRow, .msgOddTableSide, .msgEvenTableSide, .msgSignature, .BBquote, .BBcode  {
 font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
 color : #000000;
 font-weight: normal;
 font-size: 12px; <- changed this to 10pt
}
 
this seemed to fix my issues of the form growing and strinking
 
infact i changed all "font-size: ##px" to font-size:#-2pt". Fixed everything
 
what i mean by -2pt is lets say you have 19px make it 17pt, or 15px make it 13pt.
 
Hope this helps!


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It would be better if you use the header and footer files to create the header, footer and sidebar.  This is the method I use and Borg uses on this website.  Much better than frames.
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If you are having problems with CSS styles, try using TopStyle Pro.

It's a great piece of software for setting up and editing CSS style sheets.
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