Separate Topic Title from Author Info in $rows var [#1113812]

I didn't see this posted anywhere else, so thought I would mention.

I would like to be able to change the font size on the authored by information (below the topic link in topic view http://www.shrinktheweb.com/forums/maintenance-notifications). However, the $rows['title'] contains a pre-formatted & combined string with no separate div around the "authored by" text, so it is impossible without using a pre-processor routine, which I try to avoid by any means necessary. So, I will just do without (would just look better if the "author" text wasn't as big as the more important link text) until this gets implemented (if it does).

My suggestions are:

Wherever that is being processed and combined, just add a new div tag around the author information. That way, at least I can use a new CSS tag to manage the text inside it.

Separate the ['title'] out into it's individually managed parts (i.e. ['title'] and then ['author'] info)

Thanks for considering...

Best regards,

Brandon

Comments

Comment #1

Michelle

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CreditAttribution: Michelle commented 2 April 2011 at 03:55

Version:	6.x-2.0-alpha4	» 6.x-2.x-dev
Priority:	Normal	» Minor

Well, not impossible... Just target the entire td with your change and then undo it on .forum-topic-title. Or edit the view to add an extra span around the author.

Not unreasonable for a feature request, though. I'll keep it on the list.

Michelle

Comment #3

puravida CreditAttribution: puravida commented 2 April 2011 at 07:00

Hmm... I'll have to give that a try. Thanks for the suggestion. :)

Comment #4

puravida CreditAttribution: puravida commented 2 April 2011 at 08:42

@michelle,

Excellent. The forum-topic-title wasn't working out easily, so I took a quick look at Views (since last night installing for AF was the first time I'd seen it) and now I see why you integrated that. Very simple to add the span tag around the author & post date and now I have my font-size, color just the way I envisioned.

I will leave open so you can decide what to do with this request. Ultimately, though, I think this can be closed because of the Views functionality. I think it just becomes a documentation issue to let people know the power they have now, since not everyone knows about Views. I try not to install anything that I don't absolutely have to, so it was new to me. But I do see the flexibility it offers.

Thanks so much for the quick and helpful reply.

Cheers,

Brandon

Comment #5

Michelle

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CreditAttribution: Michelle commented 2 April 2011 at 12:16

It is an easy change but the problem is that any change to the view overrides it. Which means if I make any change to the view in future AF updates, you won't see them. So, for something like this, that I can see having a general use, it's better for me to make the change in the module itself. It's always a judgment call between not bloating the module with too many edge cases and making it work well "out of the box". If anyone else happens across this issue, I'd be interested in more feedback.

Michelle