add space between categories?

**Floris** · Tue 5 Jul '05, 7:43pm

Open the template 'FORUMHOME' and find this code:

Code:

 <tr align="center">
<td class="thead">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" width="100%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="175">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>

and delete that from the template.

Save the template.

Open the template 'forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost' and find this code:

Code:

$childforumbits

and above it, on a new line, add this code:

Code:

 <tr align="center">
<td class="thead" width="35">&nbsp;</td>
<td class="thead" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
<td class="thead" width="235">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
<td class="thead" width="80">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
<td class="thead" width="80">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="thead" width="125">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
</if>
</tr>

And save the template.

Open the template 'FORUMHOME' and find this code:

Code:

<!-- main -->
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<!-- guest welcome message -->

and replace it with this code:

Code:

<!-- guest welcome message -->
<if condition="$show['guest']">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<thead>

and now find this code:

Code:

 <!-- / guest welcome message -->
</if>
</thead>
$forumbits

and replace it with this code:

Code:

 
</thead>
</table><br />
</if>
<!-- / guest welcome message -->
$forumbits

And now find this code:

Code:

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="tfoot" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<!-- /main -->

and delete it.

Now find this code:

Code:

</table>
<br />
<!-- end what's going on box -->

and above this, on a new line (before the </table> one) add this code:

Code:

<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="thead" align="center" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">6<else />5</if>"><div class="smallfont"><strong>
<a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a>
<if condition="$vboptions['forumleaders']">&nbsp; &nbsp;
<a href="showgroups.php?$session[sessionurl]" rel="nofollow">$vbphrase[view_forum_leaders]</a></if>
</strong></div></td>
</tr>
</tbody>

And save the template 'FORUMHOME'.

Now open the template 'forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost' and on a new line, at the top of the template, before everything else, add this code:

Code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">

and at the bottom of the template, after everything else, on a new line, add this code:

Code:

</table><br />

And save the template.

Now open the template 'forumhome_forumbit_level2_post' and find this code:

Code:

<td class="alt2">

and replace it with this code:

Code:

<td class="alt2" width="35">

and now find this code:

Code:

 <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
<td class="alt1">$forum[threadcount]</td>
<td class="alt2">$forum[replycount]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="alt1"><div class="smallfont">$forum[moderators]&nbsp;</div></td>
</if>

and replace it with this code:

Code:

 <td class="alt2" nowrap="nowrap" width="235">$forum[lastpostinfo]</td>
<td class="alt1" width="80">$forum[threadcount]</td>
<td class="alt2" width="80">$forum[replycount]</td>
<if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
<td class="alt1" width="120"><div class="smallfont">$forum[moderators]&nbsp;</div></td>
</if>

Save the template and you're done.

**cbiweb** · Tue 5 Jul '05, 9:00pm

You know your templates! That's great. I've been thinking of putting white space in there, too, and you just saved me a few brain cells.

**mrblah** · Tue 5 Jul '05, 9:23pm

thanks that worked great, I just took step 12 and instead of doing a BR at the end I replaced that with a 10px tall colored div and it did exactly what I wanted

**wnxwakko** · Mon 5 Sep '05, 5:08pm

Thank you very much for providing this information.

Am using this.

**tanker300** · Sat 10 Sep '05, 1:30pm

Hi, I was reading this and I can do it but do you just do it exact, and how do I know for instance I want 1,2,3 forums in the top sub forum then 4,5,6,7, under that sub catagory and so on. I want to break up my forum like your main one here. Doing this example here can give me the same results

**jeremymcgill** · Tue 27 Sep '05, 3:37pm

You ROCK Floris.....

**RWD** · Tue 27 Sep '05, 4:26pm

I will do that when I have spare week lol. Alot of things to edit. Sounds like an intreasting idea, but I think I will try it on a test skin before hand.

**StarshipTrooper** · Mon 10 Oct '05, 9:25pm

Hi,

Does this procedure work with 3.5.0? I followed it to the letter and could not get it to work with the new version. Any ideas?

Regards,

Nathan

**Floris** · Tue 11 Oct '05, 5:38pm

There might be some little changes, but compare the templates and it isn't hard to figure out. I believe the ones I use on my forum are the ones from 3.0 anyway.

**JimmyWash** · Tue 11 Oct '05, 9:33pm

So, I followed all of your directions Floris, and then my tables were off, so I went to this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156777
and followed those directions.

It seems my tables are still off though: I have the forum column set to 50%, but the last post column is taking up most of the space available. Did i miss a step?

Here is my forumhome_forumbit_level1_nopost code:

Code:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td class="tcat" colspan="<if condition="$vboptions[showmoderatorcolumn]">6<else />5</if>">
            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('forumbit_$forumid')"><img id="collapseimg_forumbit_$forumid" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_tcat{$collapseimg_forumid}.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
            <a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]f=$forum[forumid]">$forum[title]</a>
            <if condition="$show['forumdescription']"><div class="smallfont">$forum[description]</div></if>
            <if condition="$show['subforums']"><div class="smallfont"><strong>$vbphrase[subforums]</strong>: $forum[subforums]</div></if>
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
<if condition="$childforumbits">
<tbody id="collapseobj_forumbit_$forumid" style="{$collapseobj_forumid}">
<tr align="center">
      <td class="thead" width="5%">&nbsp;</td>
      <td class="thead" width="50%" align="$stylevar[left]">$vbphrase[forum]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="25%">$vbphrase[last_post]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="10%">$vbphrase[threads]</td>
      <td class="thead" width="10%">$vbphrase[posts]</td>
      <if condition="$vboptions['showmoderatorcolumn']">
      <td class="thead" width="0%">$vbphrase[moderator]</td>
      </if>
    </tr>
$childforumbits
</tbody>
</if>
</table><br />

**Grover** · Sat 15 Oct '05, 5:40am

Originally posted by StarshipTrooper

Hi,

Does this procedure work with 3.5.0? I followed it to the letter and could not get it to work with the new version. Any ideas?

Regards,

Nathan

Originally posted by JimmyWash

So, I followed all of your directions Floris, and then my tables were off, so I went to this thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=156777
and followed those directions.

It seems my tables are still off though: I have the forum column set to 50%, but the last post column is taking up most of the space available. Did i miss a step?

I also can't get this to work on VB 3.5.0. Followed Floris's instructions bit by bit.

The Tips found in How To Put A Space Between Each Forum Category and after that this one : How To Change the Width of the Forum List Columns do not work perfectly either.

So I tried to come up with my own solution:

Change the Quick Tips on 'categorie spacing and widths'

It uses some spacer-gifs to align the tables. Don't know if it's a preferred solution, but it works.
If Floris is able to publish his solution that works in VB3.5.0 I am glad to try that out.

**sitka** · Mon 24 Oct '05, 8:02am

cat spacing

cat spacing should be by default. what is the purpose of having all your categories smooshed together? All the time I've wasted trying to find a hack for 3.5?!?!?! Is not worth it. This wasn't an issue w/ 3.0.x. It was easy to get it going.

**JimmyWash** · Mon 24 Oct '05, 1:17pm

Originally posted by sitka

cat spacing should be by default. what is the purpose of having all your categories smooshed together? All the time I've wasted trying to find a hack for 3.5?!?!?! Is not worth it. This wasn't an issue w/ 3.0.x. It was easy to get it going.

I agree comlpetely! This should be an option via the admin cp. And on top of that, I followed the both sets of intrustctions(adding space between cats) written by the coders here and they both ended with slight errors. So there isnt even a sure way to do this from instructions given by vbulletin. Very annoying!

**Mac Write** · Mon 24 Oct '05, 2:19pm

I got it to work, but I have a Introductions forum at the top (with no catagory) and it isn't separate from the catagory below it (as seen in screenshot below)

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