UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Top Menu Width - How To Change?

I'd like to know how I can change the width of my top menu. I've included a snap of what I'm typing about.

I've already gone into ubbt_registerednav.tmpl and changed some of the settings in there, but non of them changed the actually width of the entire menu bar.

Thanks for your help on this one...

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need to set your table width in the admin panel correctly. make it like 50%..

Ack, when I change my Table Width in the "Edit theme settings" to the 50% you recommended...it made it all too narrow.

I changed it to 95% now. I don't know why you recommended I change that setting to 50%. Maybe I'm not understanding things here...

that should have been 95.. I don't know where that 50 came from Seriously I was telling you where to change it not the percentage, thats different for everyone

Actually if you want to stick with 95 and not 100 cause your sidebar is sticking out you may want to surround the forum with a fixed table width so the sidebar does not break out.

[]Omegatron said:
Actually if you want to stick with 95 and not 100 cause your sidebar is sticking out you may want to surround the forum with a fixed table width so the sidebar does not break out. [/]

Eeeesh, and can you give me some guidance on this one? Come on Chuck, you know I'm slow here.

A fixed table size breaks the calendar and my home page.

I think in the sidebar instructions, there's a tip that it really only looks *good* if you set your table width to 100% otherwise you always have a percentage of another percentage and nothing lines up right.

yeah I could never get it to line up 100 percent even with a table.. I like mine the way it is though and no one complains

You misunderstood what I am saying.

In threads if you put a 100% width that is correct. I am saying that on some sites no matter what you do the sidebar causes things to break out of the 100% and you get a scroll bar. If you do not want a scroll far on your site you do the following.

You set threads to 100% width

You then place this in your header.php before anything

<table align="center" width="WIDTH HERE" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td>

and in the footer.php after everything

</td>
</tr>
</table>

But yes Josh setting Threads to a fixed width makes things look yucky with sidebar etc but that is not what I said above. I have encountered on many sites no matter what you did with the sidebar you get a scroll bar depending on their content. If someone wants their forum to be 750 width yes with a fixed width and sidebar etc it looks terrible but if you surround threads with a set table and set threads to 100% it views fine.

Thanx Omego I knew what ya meant it still looked yucky on my site so I left it alone. It may be setup dependent. He should try it.

LOL Yeah I thought everyone thought I meant set Threads to a fixed width. You know though so I dont mind a slight scroll.

However if someone wants to try it I suggest a fixed table width of no less than 900 if your sidebar scrolls your page. 800 will make the sidebar look a little tiny.

I'll give it a shot guys...

Thanks