Question Forum margins?

I did search for this answer. Sorry if I missed it. The website stretches full screen, so I have to read mile-long posts. Any way of condensing it into a readable size across my desktop or laptop (like most other forums)?

Thanks! Terrific forum, btw.

 

Make the window smaller?

 

Yeah, I figured I could always do that. I was hoping to avoid the extra hassle every time. Oh well.

 

You can actually do it on your end without the admins modifying the site. The site is styled with CSS, so all you have to do is customize it with a browser extension like Nighteye. Nighteye's main purpose is to give a dark look to any site, but it also has a "custom CSS" function that you can write code in. That way, you can modify how the site looks on your end.

The code itself is not hard to write. The site has a div container called pageWidth, and luckily for us, the actual content is inside an outer div container, so reducing the width and then centering the container is an easy task.

This is all it takes:

Code:

.pageWidth {
  width:1000px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

#QuickSearch {
  right:0px;
  top:-97px;
}

With this code, you get this:


It looks alright. But it isn't perfect, the main page is a bit weird:


Look at the counters. And also the search bar. You will have noticed that I moved it to the very top. Unfortunately, whoever wrote the CSS and HTML for it did so with a fixed position, so it doesn't scale very well and sometimes covers some controls if the page width is set to very low. Same goes with the counters. They're also fixed rather than dynamic. I could disable them entirely if you want.

It's not perfect and I don't prefer this method. Instead, I actually use the zoom function, which is built into the browser, takes zero downloads, and in my opinion, makes the site look pretty good. For my screen, a zoom of 170% works.



If you use the first method and something doesn't look alright, I'll look into it.

 

Hey, who's that handsome hunk of a man?

 

You mean Not the Territory?

Kidding, kidding...

 

I said man, not map...

 

Thanks so much, everyone! ps102, I'll give it a shot, thanks!

 

Maps have vanity feelings too .

 

I know there's a magnificent man behind the map.