Too many tabs?

jimw

In my quest to find just what my forum will look like when fully released, I've added some extensions that add tabs to the basic menu. I then decided to use the PageManager extension to add some pages which are also added to the tabs. Now, I have a problem with wrapping tabs in the Jazzman theme. But I also see a problem in all themes and that is that if you add enough, you will get wrapping tabs. Is there a good way to handle this? Would it be in the theme or in the core? Is there a standard way of adding tabs? Maybe the best way to handle this is to add a second tab line as I saw in another discussion. Maybe PageManager couldd be configured to either add a second line of tabs or put them in the sidepanel.

pbear

If you know you're going to have a gazillion tabs, I'd go in and make a mod of the html/ul-list--menu-part in menu.php and tweak the stylesheet specifically for your theme. I find the current setup is not quite bulletproof, e.g. if I change just the text size for menu items in vanilla.css I start getting odd spacing/overlap issues.

Edit: Or you could filter out non-forum-essential tabs (static stuff?) and put them in another area, say across the top via the Lussumo Banner extension.

WallPhone

I am working on a style that places the tabs down the sidepanel. You could get about twenty tabs before the sidepanel is pushed half way down a 1280x1024 screen.

Only problem is you have to manually edit the CSS file to tell it how much space the tabs occupy.