Side Block Title Alignment

Involved Joined: Aug 06, 2005 Posts: 301

I see that if I place long text in the title of a Block and set the block as a side block, (left or right), the text will 'jump' to a second line in order to fit in the block.

This is good, but the text could be aligned better.

Presently the text would look like this:

__Very Long
Block Tilte

(There is no __ but I had to use it here to demonstrate the alighnment)

But of course this perfectionist would much prefer it too look like this:

Very Long
Block Tilte

Do YOU have the solution as to which file to modify and where it is located in the directories?

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

It would be in your themes/(yourtheme)/theme.php, in the function themesidebox, which may have the HTML or may open an HTML file, but that will be obvious when you look at that function.

Involved Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 293

I had the same problem to tidy the appearence up.
In Admin Cp/blocks/edit/title I added a few &nb sp; without the space to make spaces before and between the words to 'square' them up .
Trial and error as to how many and have to go thru each block one at a time.

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:42 pm

The exact solution to this depends on exactly how you do want the Block Title to be alighned, (i.e. to the left, to the right or in the centre).

I have resolved this issue by doing the following to align the Block Title text centrally:

The file to make adjustments in is theme.php located at:

/themes/'YOURTHEME'/theme.php

Find the code:

function themesidebox($title, $content) {

echo "<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"138\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">"

."<tr><td background=\"themes/DeepBlue/images/table-title.gif\" width=\"138\" height=\"20\">"

."     <font color=\"#FFFFFF\"><b>$title</b></font>"

I deleted the instance of where you see the code string:

     

And I additionally entered the comand to centre align the text, thus the final replacement code was as follows:

function themesidebox($title, $content) {
echo "<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"138\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">"
."<tr><td background=\"themes/DeepBlue/images/table-title.gif\" width=\"138\" height=\"20\">"
."<DIV ALIGN=\"CENTER\"><font color=\"#FFFFFF\"><b>$title</b></font></DIV>"

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:51 pm

Great! Hopefully, you did that with a real text editor, rather than notepad...

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:59 pm

Actually, because I only needed to delete the       string and add a <DIV ALIGN=\"CENTER\"> etc, I did it manually...By 'manually' I mean that I opened up the file in the hosting companies online editor 'panel'.