Getting vB to have a left nav

[gabbs]

Has anyone managed to get vB when viewing posts to have a left nav? if so could you point me to it so i can take a look at the html as i'm having a couple of probs doing it, keeps smegging up for some very strange reason...

[zonegray]

Yes, it can be done, but the showthread page is laid out differently than most of the others, so it takes some special tweaking, which I haven't yet spent the time to figure out.

One thing that messes you up is that the header template opens a table/row/cell, and the main templates have to close those.

We haven't launched yet, but I'll send a URL for my dev site in a private message.

[shri]

You mean something like this?

http://www.geobaby.com/forum

You need to go through some of the places and remove the table close / reopen that the default vB template has.

[c-prompt]

In Showthread Template

FIND

<!-- End content area table (CREATED IN HEADER!!) -->   
	</td>
</tr>
</table>

Remove it.

FIND

<!-- restart content table from header -->
<table cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="{tablewidth}" bgcolor="{pagebgcolor}" align="center">
<tr>
    <td>

Remove it and save the template.

[Kehfera]

OH HELP PLEASE

I see the example web page above...
I noticed there is a border around the entire LARGE table.
Which template is this in?

I have tried several and also modified the header...
It does not work. I even tried making a table that eveything fit into but that bombed too.I have looked at the CSS coding. I just can't seem to find it anywhere. Please help.

Thanks,
Kehf

[shri]

Try the header and footer.

Open a simple table

AT THE TOP of the header or where ever you want your tables to begin.

<table width="100%">
<tr><td width="25%">

</td>
<td width="75%">

and

at the top of the footer]
</td></tr></table>

Its fairly simple .... in about 3 or 4 places you need to remove the table begin / end that vbulletin forces.. other than that its not rocket science.

[Kehfera]

Tried that but -

I tried that but because of some background graphics it would not show up...mmm

I tried most every table. Then- while trying to do some other tweeking I found the forumhome template. Adding another table before the header variable and closing it after the footer variable made it work just great.

THANKS for your help!
I am always appreciative of the help that we get from this site from users and owners alike.

Kehf.