[vB3] Easily limit the size of user signatures

**Rocol** · Fri 21 Nov '03, 4:46pm

He, he, nice one Chen .. shall be using that

**Brian Briscoe** · Fri 21 Nov '03, 8:33pm

Good idea Chen...

**Jenan** · Tue 25 Nov '03, 6:54am

nice one
is there any massage that will appear to user who try to put a signature over the limit?

**drews** · Mon 15 Dec '03, 3:40am

Good mod, but is there a way where if the users signature is less than that width and height that it will shrink down? That way, if a user only has a one line signature it will not take up the entire 250x125px.

**Prince** · Thu 18 Dec '03, 12:03pm

the only problem with that template mod, at least in vB 2.x.x, is all sigs will be set at that width/height even if their sig is not that big the space will be allocated for it in their posts which looks stupid IMO.

Maybe not in vB3, I do not know.

**drews** · Thu 18 Dec '03, 1:46pm

Thats exactly what I was saying.... there has to be a better way.....

**Prince** · Fri 19 Dec '03, 7:45am

well, you could add more code and create "scroll bars", but I think that looks tacky.

**Prince** · Fri 19 Dec '03, 7:53am

this is how you could do it with scrollbars:

Replace $post[signature] with:

<div align="center" style="width:99%;height:200px;overflow:auto;"><normalfont>$post[signature]</normalfont></div>

but, personally I do no like how this looks either.

**gorman** · Tue 23 Dec '03, 6:35am

The problem is that IE does not support the max-height instruction, otherwise... there wouldn't be any problem

I've tried looking for a solution, and I've come up with this link:

Page not found – svendtofte.com

http://www.svendtofte.com/code/max_width_in_ie/

Maybe somebody more HTML-savy than me will be able to come up with something good after reading it.

**gorman** · Tue 23 Dec '03, 7:53am

Code:

 
<html>
<style>
body {
width:100%;
margin:0;
padding:0;}
p {
max-width:500px;
width:expression(document.body.clientWidth > 500? "500": "auto" );
}
</style>
<body>
<p>
$post[signature]</p>
</body>
</html>

This should limit the signature width to 500 pixels... the problem is that when I apply this, it gets applied to all the posts... I managed to limit the height and width (refer to the site I gave in the previous post), but never without causing problems to posts and so on... as I said, I'm not into HTML... at all...

As

**P.Jackson** · Tue 23 Dec '03, 8:17am

is there a way to limit signatures with text i.e 200 words?

**jilly** · Fri 2 Jan '04, 5:57am

there's a character limit you can use..

There's not a 'word' limit, but I know for vB3 gamma there is a character limit for sig files you can use, and specify how many characters are allowed.

**gorman** · Wed 7 Jan '04, 6:20am

Nobody knows a way to apply the solution I found without having the posts affected?

**gorman** · Thu 8 Jan '04, 6:35am

With the help of the very kind Svend Tofte (http://www.svendtofte.com/), I managed to come up with the ultimate solution to this problem (or so it appears to me at the moment).

In template headinclude add this:

Code:

 
<!-- signature control -->
<script>
function foo(elm) {
	if (elm.clientHeight >= 158) {
		return "158px";
	} else {
		return "default";
	}
}
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.signature {
	height:expression(foo(this));
max-height:158px;
}
<!-- end signature control -->

You have to remove the other <style type="text/css"> that appears just before the definitions for scrollbars color, etc.

And in postbit_signature substitute this:

Code:

 <p><normalfont>__________________<br>
$post[signature]</normalfont></p>

with this:

Code:

 
<p><normalfont>__________________<br>
<div style="width: 500px; overflow: hidden;" class="signature">$post[signature]</div></normalfont></p>

This sample code assumes the limit in place on my forums. 158 pixels for height and 500 pixels for width. The width remains fixed, as it's unlikely to cause problems. While the height limit adjust itself to take only the space needed until the limit you set.

I'm running 2.2.8 and it's working flawlessly so far.

[vB3] Easily limit the size of user signatures

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