I'm currently implenting the InstantForum.Net into my existing site and I'm have a bugger of a time figuring out how to constrict the forum width to 750 pixels. It must be fairly simple but I'm overlooking it. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks much in advance and happy new year to all!

-David

I just did much of the same and while I can do it in general, users entering in monster graphics or non broken links (long links) etc will force the horizontal scroll.

If you go into header.ascx and footer.ascx you can quickly add opening table tags and set the width and then in the footer put the closing table tag.

If you'd like more detail, let me know.

Thanks for the follow-up Mark.

I figured out to tweak the header.ascx and footer.ascx however my real issue was with the body of the forum expanding to a 100% not constricted to 750 pixels. To control this I modified the style.css for the skin I'm going to use and the added a width to the .ForumsBackGroundTable definition so it looked liked this:

.ForumsBackGroundTable
  {
 background-color: #FFFFFF;
 border-bottom: #345487 1px solid;
 border-right: #345487 1px solid;
 border-top: #345487 1px solid;
 border-left: #345487 1px solid;
 width: 750px;
 left: auto;
  }

This worked great however only of your site is centered on the web page. Unfortunately my site is left justified and some of the table in most the .ascx files had to be changed to either left justified or default to work properly.

-David

If I understand correctly then adding a 750px wide table starting in the header with ONE cell to hold all the forum data should do the trick... just left justify (or leave alone) the table and let the normal layout of the forum be handled WITHIN that big cell. This way you dont change the skin and risk the formatting going nuts when someone selects a different skin.

Got an example link?

Mine is www.paratrooper.net/commo

Hi David,

Mark is quite right with his suggestion. The easiest method todo this would be to add a start of a table to the header.ascx and then close this in the footer.ascx

For example in controls/header.ascx

<table width="750"><tr><td>

(header.ascx code here) ....

Then in the controls/footer.ascx do something similar and close the table for example...

(footer.ascx code here)

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

Hope this helps

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Wow, I knew it should be simple. I misunderstood your reply Mark.  I made it a whole lot harder for myself with all the modfifying I did. Opening and closing a table in the header and footer is a much easier, cleaner and better way to do it.

Thanks for the guidance!

-David

Not a problem at all. Sometimes the easiest way is the simple one.

Hi David,

Don't forget to share your URL once live

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Per your request.

http://www.nbtnet.newboundary.com/forum

Thanks for the great product Ryan!!

Hi David,

Thanks for posting the link. However i'm receiving the following error...

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I'm not sure what is occuring but if you can provide any feedback or send FTP details i'll take a look

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