[vB4] Remove Sidebar from Groups Home

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On a fixed width the sidebar for groups is really bad looking. I removed this code from socialgroups_overview

    <div id="sidebar_container"<vb:if condition="$stylevar['textdirection'] == 'rtl'"> class="sidebarleft"</vb:if>>
        <ul id="sidebar">
            <li id="newgroups">
                <div class="block smaller">
                    <div class="blocksubhead">
                        <a class="collapse" id="collapse_w_newgroups" href="#top"><img alt="" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse_40b.png" id="collapseimg_newgroups"/></a>
                        <img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/star.png" alt="" />
                        <span class="blocktitle">{vb:rawphrase new_groups}</span>
                    </div>
                    <vb:if condition="$newgroupbits != ''">
                    <ul id="w_newgroups" class="blockbody floatcontainer widget_content">
                        {vb:raw newgroupbits}
                    </ul>
                    </vb:if>
                </div>
                <div class="underblock"></div>
            </li>
            <li id="categories">
                <div class="block smaller">
                    <div class="blocksubhead">
                        <a class="collapse" id="collapse_w_categories" href="#top"><img alt="" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/collapse_40b.png" id="collapseimg_categories"/></a>
                        <a class="blocksubheadinfo" href="{vb:link grouphome, '', 'do=grouplist'}">{vb:rawphrase view_all}</a>
                        <img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_cms}/categories.png" alt="" />
                        <span class="blocktitle">{vb:rawphrase categories}</span>
                    </div>
                    <vb:if condition="$categorybits != ''">
                    <ul id="w_categories" class="blockbody floatcontainer widget_content">
                        {vb:raw categorybits}
                    </ul>
                    </vb:if>
                </div>
                <div class="underblock"></div>
            </li>
        </ul>
    </div>

but ended up with this: I would prefer not to zap the search also.



Since I cant figure this out by simply cutting I have therefore declared this to be Magic and as such need help

Thanks again,

-Jason

[Lynne]

You've shown us what it looks like, but what do you want it to look like? This is a CSS issue and so we really need to have a link to see the problem (and, as I stated), we need to know what you want it to look like also).

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Lynne, my apologies. I just want the two columns and the search in the same place. Since the sidebar doesn't work well with the fixed length on this page I would rather just remove it.

Sorry about the confusion,

-Jason

[Lynne]

I still need a link to see your groups page (and a test username/password, if necessary). I also still don't understand what you want - search moved over to be on top of the second column? An image would really help here.

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Sorry for the delay, PM sent.

Thanks again,

-Jason

[TheLastSuperman]

Try adding this new plugin:

Product: vBulletin
Hook Location: parse_templates
Title: Hide sidebar on Groups Page
Execution Order: 5
Code:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'group') {
$hidesidebar = '<style type="text/css">
#content_container, #content {
margin-right:0px !important;
}
#sidebar_container {
display:none !important;
}
</style>';

$template_hook[headinclude_bottom_css] .= $hidesidebar;
} 

Edit: Ermmm Hmm hmmmm... that will remove the sidebar from all pages and still leaves some sub group pages not so aesthetically pleasing so I suppose the best thing to do would be to comment out the sidebar code in each respective group template .