Easy way to align whole forum to the left ?

[Devalin]

Is there an easy way to align the whole forum to the left, while still keeping it a fixed size, ie 760 pixels.

I've found a few references to center in some of the forum templates but changing just one or two seems to break other things (ie some of the sub panels appear on the right off the forum, rather than below it).

I suppose i could encase the whole forum in another table, but i was wondering if there was an easier way, other than that vb3.0 is working great, the new features push it well ahead of the other free/licenses competitors.

[RetroDreams]

Bump.

[Zachery]

I belive if you look at the header template you might find what you need

[RetroDreams]

I belive if you look at the header template you might find what you need

I've changed everything possible in the header template and it always looks like a wreck.

[Floris]

Don't forget to modify the template: spacer_open it has a few "center" alignments set which you might want to change to "left".

That, together with the header and footer templates where you can apply the same changes, might provide the wanted result

Good luck.

[Zachery]

Ah thanks Floris, i totaly forgot about spacer open, dang new templates

[Floris]

No problem

[jostar]

Easy

Gee, Do you think there is any easier way?
Like if I post my code here can someone show me the change with different color for LEFT align?

"Spacer_Open"

<!-- open content container -->
<if condition="$show['old_explorer']">
<table bgcolor="#FFFFFF" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="$stylevar[outertablewidth]" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="page" style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px">
<else />
<div align="center">
<div class="page" style="width:$stylevar[outerdivwidth]; text-align:$stylevar[left]">
<div style="padding:0px $stylevar[spacersize]px 0px $stylevar[spacersize]px">
</if>



"header"

<!-- logo -->
<table bgcolor="#D3D8E0" class="bordert" border="0" width="762" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
<tr><td>
<a name="top"></a>
<div align="center">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%" align="left" valign="top" style="background: #FFFFFF;"><a href=" src="$stylevar[imgdir_misc]/logo.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<div align="center" class="navbg">
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<tr align="center" class="navbg">
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</if>
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</if>
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<td class="navbg"><a href="calendar.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>
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<if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">
<if condition="$show['member']">
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</if>
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</if>
</if>
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['userid']">
<td class="navbg"><a href="login.php?$session[sessionurl]do=logout" onclick="return log_out()">$vbphrase[log_out]</a></td>
</if>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!-- / nav buttons bar -->
<if condition="$show['popups']">
<!-- NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->
<div align="center">

<if condition="$show['searchbuttons']">
<!-- header quick search form -->
<div class="vbmenu_popup" id="navbar_search_menu" style="display:none" align="left">
<table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1" border="0" align="left">
<tr>
<td class="thead">$vbphrase[search_forums]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="vbmenu_option" title="nohilite">
<form action="search.php" method="post">
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<input type="hidden" name="showposts" value="0" />
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</td>
</tr>
<tr>
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</tr>
</table>
</div>
<!-- / header quick search form -->
</if>
<if condition="$show['member']">
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<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="search.php?$session[sessionurl]do=getnew">$vbphrase[new_posts_nav]</a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="forumdisplay.php?$session[sessionurl]do=markread">$vbphrase[mark_forums_read]</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="vbmenu_option"><a href="subscription.php?$session[sessionurl]">$vbphrase[subscribed_threads]</a></td></tr>
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</table>
</div>
<!-- / user cp tools menu -->
</if>
</div>
<!-- / NAVBAR POPUP MENUS -->
</if>
</div>
<!-- content table -->
$spacer_open
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