UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Header/Body/Footer Misallignments - tablesurround?

Hi all!

Try as I may, I could not find anything regarding the alignment issues I am experiencing here on this wonderful community board.

We have just upgraded to 6.5.1, and I am attempting to insert our navigation/logo into the header using the "HTML Includes" section under DisplayOptions/General/HTMLIncludes". All looks good with the includes as it shows our header and footer nicely.

However, the problem I am experiencing is that the header and footer appear "left justified" while the body of the forum is "center justified". So when I expand the browser window, the body moves to the right while the header/footer stays left.

I figure that I could go into one of the templates and modify one of them, however, that would illiminate the benefit of the includes. I have aligned my header/footer tables in the includes as "center" justified, but that does not seem to do anything (they stay left justified). Nonetheless, it appears there is a class called "tablesurround" that I cannot seem to locate in the stylesheet editor, templates, or anywhere else. Does this have something to do with it, and whether or not it does, where can I edit this class since I cannot locate this class in any of the editors... yet? I guess from the looks of it, I have a second question that needs answering.

Most importantly, I want to keep the body of the forum "left justified" along with the header/footer includes that are also left justified. And, I am trying to do this by using the includes. I have seen other sites with this same issue and it appears disorienting for me. However, many sites do not experience this issue... this one included. Any advice is appreciated and, unfortunately, I need it quickly...

Thx all... I truly appreciate all your community's great contributions!

A link to your board would help a lot.

Thank you, Astaran, for your reply. However, our board is password protected in our member's only (paid subscriber) area and I am unable to open this up publicly for company security reasons.

Nonetheless, does my previous post sound confusing? Let me know what that is and I will follow-up with more detail. I can, however, create a screen cap of the formatting in question and post that on Monday if that will help... but I am hoping the detailed text will help.

Please let me know, and thank you again for your interest in the issue I am experiencing.

if the tablesurround property ISN'T in the .css style sheets your sites use and its being dependent for a few things then yes add the property to your stylesheet and try that.. but since table surround only usually has the following attributes

.tablesurround {
color: #005826;
background-color: transparent;
}

and no alignment variables I would suggest a closer examine of the templates themselves...

you COULD try setting your tbopen.tmpl from

<table width="95%" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="tablesurround">

to

<table width="95%" align="left" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="tablesurround">

which MAY fix it but froak something else up..

I would suggest doing the following..

bring up the page in your browser and and right click and select view source and then cut and paste THAT into say Dreamweaver, or any other thing you NORMALLY use to create HTML pages and see what it looks like in that.. you MAY be able to spot the place where the header and footer are being aligned one way and your forums the other...

Thank you so much, scroungr! Your suggestion work regarding the alignment issue. Having done that, I heeded your warning that something else may "froak" up, however, nothing that I could see was affected by this change (I changed "center" to "default" because anything else would have led to misaligned tables).

Nonetheless, I had to visit several more templates including the templates for the "My Home" section and "Calendar" since these areas required the same special attention.

As for the includes, I will test to see if all will be well now.

Of course, never for a loss at curiosity, my only question now is the following:

Do you know of any documentation that explains what section each template belongs (I could not find a comprehensive list in my software download). I know through looking at the code, I was able to find various templates (or just guessing using common sense as in the case with calendar, however, there was one named "calendar_makemonth" for which I have no idea).

However, having such a reference might be nice & handy including references to the various classes. Is this asking too much or am I being greedy?

Regardless, I must say that this forum is incredibly helpful and I so much appreciate this community in helping me with our community.

Ciao!