Question for Jake Bunce re "How To Change the Width of the Forum List Columns."
 

I am having a small problem after doing the "How to insert space between categories" mod and it has to do with the last post column not lining up in Forum Home. In Forum Display everything lines up just right.

Let me begin by saying that I have a fixed width forum set at 960px. Not sure if this affects anything but thought it best to mention this.

I tried DoE's suggestion but it worked for wider settings of the Last Post column but not for narrower ones: Quote:
Originally Posted by DoE (Post 1744656)
The column widths are all over the place because of the length of the last post data and that each category is a new table. To fix it:

In the green code posted above, find:

Code:
$vbphrase[forum]
$vbphrase[last_post]
and replace with:

Code:
$vbphrase[forum]
$vbphrase[last_post]
Change the width's of the two percentage values to get the last post block as wide as you need. Their totals together should always be 100%.

Do you suppose your suggestion here might work better in my case having a fixed width forum?
Quote:
Notice how not all of the table cells ( tags) have width attributes. You need to give each cell a width attribute, and the total widths need to equal 100% of the horrizontal space. Percentages work well for this. Here is an example of what you might use:


Code:


$vbphrase[forum]
$vbphrase[last_post]
$vbphrase[threads]
$vbphrase[posts]

$vbphrase[moderator]


Notice how the total width is 100%. The above example assumes you are not using the Moderator column. If you have the moderator column enabled then you need to give it a piece of the pie.
And an important followup question, is it okay to disable the Moderator column as suggested? Will I lose functionality such as being able to delete a thread without it?

Thanks in advance. :)