How can I modify the size of sidebar ?

[romful]

Hi everybody,

I would like to modify the size of sidebar in order to insert a banner with a size of 250*200 but 250 as width is too big.

If I insert this banner , the template is modifying, This is why I would like to modify the size of sidebar and consequently reduce the width of articles.

How can I do it ?

Thanks to help me.

Romain

[Simpatico]

Change these lines of code in the main.css file:

#contentbox {margin:0 240px 0 25px;}
#sidebar {position:absolute; top:0; left:auto; right:25px; width:200px;}

To this:

#contentbox {margin:0 290px 0 25px;}
#sidebar {position:absolute; top:0; left:auto; right:25px; width:250px;}

[romful]

Great it works but there is a problem, the size of sidebar is modifying but the size of articles is not modifying so this creates a superimposition between them.

So how can I modify the size of articles ?

Thanks Simpatico

Rom

[beatniak]

Bizarrely (is that a word?) easy! The size of articles as you call it is the "contentbox"

#contentbox {margin:0 250px 0 25px}

margin values above are in these order: top right bottom left.

So the margin of the "size of articles" (aka contentbox) is:
top = 0px
right = 250px
bottom = 0px
left = 25px

Just add 50px to the right value (because sidebox also has 50px more width) and your site looks great again!

So it should look like this:

#contentbox {margin:0 300px 0 25px}

[Simpatico]

If you cut-and-pasted the lines of code I suggested and it still isn't working as expected, then a link to your site would come in handy. Have you made any other alterations?

I'm using a heavily modified version of Mollio-Beat and changing both the sidebar and contentbox values works fine.

Beatniak's post explains why the changes should work.

[beatniak]

Like Simpatico (means sympathatic in italian, right?) says:

Always put a link to the dev/test site so other people can see what you mean. If simpatico's / my solution doesn't work, then something else is the problem that we can only solve by looking into your code.

[spartacus]

Hello

I am attempting to add a second sidebar using mollio-beat. I've adjusted the contentbox code from 240 to 440 to accommodate the new sidebar. I've essentially duplicated the sidebar.tpl file (naming it sidebar2.tpl) and then added this code where I think it should be located in the pligg.tpl file:

<div id="sidebar2">
{include file=$tpl_right_sidebar2.".tpl"}
</div><!-- sidebar end -->

I know I'm missing a step here somewhere. Help is greatly appreciated.

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