What was the font/font size on the old board?
I believe it was Verdana, 14px.
In alternating posts, there are a couple extra blank lines between the end of the post and the separating line. I think that's what Perkins was talking about?
I know what the problem is here, but the fix may be tricky.
If a post is more than one paragraph, then each is surrounded by a p tag. But if a post is only one paragraph, no p tag is used. Since the p tag (correctly) has a top and bottom margin, this means that posts of more than one paragraph have more space at the bottom than posts of just one paragraph.
The best fix, I think, is to also put a p tag around all post paragraphs, even if there's just one. Then the space at the bottom will always be the same and we can futz with the css to remove the extra space.
t edit
note that this is a fix that ita needs to do. It's not a css change!
ita -- digging deeper into the code, I think the fix is easy. Right now, the _quickedit() function is replacing line breaks with a closing and opening p tag. But
no post
has an opening p tag at the start or closing p tag at the end! Just add them to the start and end of every post, and we'll be good.
Okay--is there css stuff from css.net that needs to come over?
Looks like threadsuck is already fixed, yes? Then just showthread.php
I believe it was Verdana, 14px.
I've taken a look at the CSS, and I don't know what to change! Everything is in percentages, and the only mention of font is an entire family.
note that this is a fix that ita needs to do. It's not a css change!
So I should leave the CSS alone for the padding issue?
Jon, can you also have a look at validate and register.php?
I've taken a look at the CSS, and I don't know what to change!
The font family hasn't changed. All you should need to add is:
body {font-size: 14px;}
and see what happens.
So I should leave the CSS alone for the padding issue?
I would say hold off until ita fixes the paragraph tag issue. Then see how things look.
huge and grateful thanks to ita and Jon and DX
I had nothing at all to do with it.
The good news is that if you really don't like something, you can change it!
I must have missed the day in Interface Design class where "user friendly" was defined as requiring users to hand code css sheets to get things to look right.
t 2 cents
I completely get that some/most of the extra padding is not a CSS issue (and thanks for finding a fix), but I do think the tinkering I did made the board look better to me and might to others as well. It didn't fix the longer posts, but it helped with the one paragraph ones by getting rid of some extra white space.
t /2 cents
Never mind (given Jon's post)
