Alternating Forum Home Rows

[Shining Arcanine]

Would someone please tell me how to make the rows on Forum Home alternate colors?

I've searched vBulletin.com, vBulletin.org, vBulletin-templates.com and google and all I have come up with is a template modification for a vBulletin 3.0.0 Beta version. I didn't even find a documentation of the variables that are used throughout the standard templates.

[Zachery]

You want alternating row colors instead of collums?

[Shining Arcanine]

Yes.

[Zachery]

Ill poke around with some code and see what i can get you

This is amykhar's code but just updated if you havent modifyed your forumhome_forumbit_level2_post template just replce it with this

<tr align="center">
 <td <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" /></td>
 <td <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if> align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
  <div>
   <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>
   <if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>
  </div>
  <if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
  <if condition="$show['forumsubscription']"><div class="smallfont"><strong><a href="subscription.php?$session[sessionurl]do=removesubscription&amp;f=$forum[forumid]">$vbphrase[unsubscribe_from_this_forum]</a></strong></div></if>
  <if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top:$stylevar[cellpadding]px"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
 </td>
 <td <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if> nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
 <td <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>>$forum[threadcount]</td>
 <td <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>>$forum[replycount]</td>
 <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
 <td <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>><div class="smallfont">$forum[moderators]&nbsp;</div></td>
 </if>
</tr>
$childforumbits

[Shining Arcanine]

That made all of the columns the same color. Also, wouldn't the conditional go into the table row tag rather than the table data tag like in this example:

<tr align="center" <if condition="$forum['displayorder'] % 2 == 0">class="alt2"<else />class="alt1"</if>>
<td ><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_statusicon]/forum_$forum[statusicon].gif" alt="" border="0" /></td>
<td align="$stylevar[left]" id="f$forum[forumid]">
<div>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]"><strong>$forum[title]</strong></a>
<if condition="$show['browsers']"><span class="smallfont">(<phrase 1="$forum[browsers]">$vbphrase[x_viewing]</phrase>)</span></if>
</div>
<if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
<if condition="$show['forumsubscription']"><div class="smallfont"><strong><a href="subscription.php?$session[sessionurl]do=removesubscription&amp;f=$forum[forumid]">$vbphrase[unsubscribe_from_this_forum]</a></strong></div></if>
<if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont" style="margin-top:$stylevar[cellpadding]px"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
<td >$forum[threadcount]</td>
<td >$forum[replycount]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td ><div class="smallfont">$forum[moderators]&nbsp;</div></td>
</if>
</tr>
$childforumbits

Unfortunately, that doesn't work either.

[Zachery]

No, mine works fine if your forum order is set correcty in the AdminCP > Forums & Modertaors > Forum Manager > they need to in the correct order, ie: 1,2,3,4

[Shining Arcanine]

Oh, so that is why, I have mine setup in mutiples of 10. ^_^;;

Edit: It worked! Thanks. It seems my version also worked.

[amykhar]

I knew that math degree of mine would come in handy some day

[Zachery]

thanks amy

[HexOnxOnx]

Thanks both of you! I was looking for this for a long time as well. I found something months ago on another site but I could never figure out where to put the code. Got it on my forums now.

[HexOnxOnx]

Anyone here know how to do this on forum display as well? Thanks!

[amykhar]

Anyone here know how to do this on forum display as well? Thanks!

It's a wee bit trickier on forum display for threads because the thread id won't be sequential. I'll take a peek and see what I can do as a template mod.

Amy

[HexOnxOnx]

Great, thanks!

[amykhar]

Unfortunately, I don't see a way to do it as a template mod only. This would require a hack, IMO.

Amy

[HexOnxOnx]

Thanks for checking on it anyways Amy!