[Solved] How do I add elements beside the Discussion Title?

tonex

How do I add elements beside the Discussion Title (not below it)? It can be anything - text, link, etc. I am actually thinking of putting the Front Page Discussions Pagination plugin beside the Discussion Title, instead of below it.

Thanks.

Todd

The title anchor is display: block via css. You can change it back to display: inline in your theme and then whatever you echo in the AfterDiscussionTitle event will show up beside it.

422

Can you post mockup image of what you are after?

tonex

Like this..

422

Use css. But what kind of elements, you seem to have a specific theme and a wooly question lol.

UnderDog

The 'Fleet Rules' and 'Fleet Officers' titles do have the < DIV > element with the class .Title This is the code in the .css file, according to FireBug: .DataList .Title {
display: block;
font-size: 14px;
font-weight: bold;
margin: 0;
}

The 'display' is set to 'block' and I don't know if inside that block you can add another < DIV > element (@427 will know)

peregrine

if @427 doesn't know his older brother @429 should know (just furthering Sheila's joke posted somewhere else.)

tonex

UnderDog
The 'Fleet Rules' and 'Fleet Officers' titles do have the < DIV > element with the class .Title This is the code in the .css file, according to FireBug: .DataList .Title {

    display: block;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-weight: bold;
    margin: 0;
}

The 'display' is set to 'block' and I don't know if inside that block you can add another < DIV > element (@427 will know)

Yes, I've seen that code. The pagination plugin uses < span > after the discussion title < div > but since the < div > uses display:block, the < span > is forced below the < div >. Setting the < div > to display: inline doesn't fix it.

peregrine

wrap them both in a span.

peregrine

post a link to your site.

try modifying helper_functions.php

 
      
      <?php echo Anchor($DiscussionName, $DiscussionUrl, 'Title'); ?>
      <?php $Sender->FireEvent('AfterDiscussionTitle'); ?>
      

depending on how you added paging fire it off with AfterDiscussionTitle
or append it.

tonex

http://www.supremofleet.org/

peregrine

so what's the problem.

tonex

That's a hack. I need the pagination / page navigation right after the discussion title and not at a static location on the right side.

UnderDog

tonex said:
I need the pagination / page navigation right after the discussion title and not at a static location on the right side.

Oh, for crying out loud! @tonex you need to find out a little bit more yourself, man. Now you're just sitting here with your hands in the air, telling what you need, you need to show a little more effort.

Your spans have absolute positioning, that's 1. peregrine said that you also needed to put the title in a span (that's 2). Now what you need to do is to figure out how you can place both spans in such a way that you like it (50% / 50% ? ).

Say what you think you need to do.

Try it and see what happens.

Use FireFox.

Use the FireBug plugin of FireFox.

tonex

UnderDog said:

tonex said:
I need the pagination / page navigation right after the discussion title and not at a static location on the right side.

Oh, for crying out loud! @tonex you need to find out a little bit more yourself, man. Now you're just sitting here with your hands in the air, telling what you need, you need to show a little more effort.

Of course I try find out a little bit on my own. That's why I managed a hack. I am telling this here while I find the solution myself. I know how this process works. The position: absolute is the hack.

I don't know how you figured I am raising my hands in the air.

tonex

Also, I am thinking of what peregrine is saying. I am always studying my options. I am trying to find a way to not touch the view as much as possible, just the CSS and perhaps modifying the plugin so that it uses the proper events.

Todd

The title anchor is display: block via css. You can change it back to display: inline in your theme and then whatever you echo in the AfterDiscussionTitle event will show up beside it.

tonex

I already stated above that it doesn't work. It just messes up the discussion list... but I'll take a look at it again.

tonex

Hold that thought... I fixed it... but I'm about to go mobile. I'll explain it later.

tonex

It turns out Todd and Underdog are correct. I was taking a hard look at display: inline all this time but was not sure which selector was responsible.

I thought .DataList .ItemContent was it but as Todd and Underdog pointed out, .DataList a.Title is the right selector.

The only (minor) problem is, by setting display: inline, the discussion title (if very long) flows to the right side overlapping the "options" FlyOut Menu but I can live with that. (Or perhaps that's another issue to tackle.)

peregrine

couldn't you assign a higher z-index to the Flyout menu so it floats over the title instead of the other way around if that is what you want.

tonex

It floats over the title. I just didn't know if there's such a word as underlap. Like, the title underlaps the flyout menu. :P