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If you want to change the message that <pun_status> delivers, you can change that in header.php. Changing the style of it, you would have to add some CSS for it in your index.php.

I'm trying to recall where the footer links are.. but can't remember, I'll get back to you if I do.

The footer links are in footer.php.

You should try putting <pun_status> in a class="block" DIV like in the miniportal tutorial. You might have to edit header.php to add class="box" to the brdstatus DIV though.

Yep, I've done it before. You might have to do a little editing, but nothing major.

First of all, it doesn't matter whether or not it's in header.php, it matters where the tag is in main.tpl.

Anyway, I was suggesting something like this:

<div class="block">
        <h2><span>Menu</span></h2>
        <pun_status>
</div>

Thus you would edit header.php to assign the brdstatus DIV the box class so hopefully things would look right (hopefully). Style is in the CSS, but it depends heavily upon the selectors in the HTML, which is generated by the PHP files.

Alternatively, you could just look in header.php and cannibalize the <pun_status> code. Copy it, comment it out of header.php, paste it into a new file, edit it to your liking, and add it into you template via <pun_include>, as described in the docs.

If you continue to have trouble, please post your CSS and either a link or a screenshot.

Good luck!

Please see if this CSS helps:

#brdwelcome .conr {
    FLOAT: left;
    TEXT-ALIGN: left;
    WIDTH: 100%
    DISPLAY: block;
}

#brdwelcome  .conl {
    WIDTH: 100%;
    OVERFLOW: visible;
}

There's a good chance it won't totally work, but I think it's a start.

It really isn't that difficult
base.css lays out the basic structure for everything, style_cs.css does the color scheme, style.css deals with spacing,  link styling, font size, etc that may change in different styles.
The only file you need to create is style.css (since that's the file loaded). Just keep in mind that it will have to contain all of what you would find in the three files

And as for what sheet to add that to, I would assume style.css (where style is the name of the style you're using)

yes the #left is the block.....

#left {
        width: 120px;
        float: left;
        text-align: left
    }

Try something like that and see what you get. Im pretty sure it will stylize it for you.

If not you will have to look in to header.php and edit some code that deals with the <pun_status>

It would be relatively simple either way. its nothing complicated.

To be honest.....if i were you i would do exactly what pogenwurst had mentioned. it is probably the cleanest way to follow through with this.

That's just the way CSS works, sorry.

Anyway, here's the deal: because style sheets are cascading, <pun_status> does inherit some styling from the menu box. The trouble is that <pun_status> also gets the styles applied to other elements, namely those with the classes "conr" and "conl". From what I can tell, it's the styles applied to precisely those classes that are causing your positioning problems, which is why I gave you the CSS that I did.

So please at least try out what I gave you, and we can work on it from there. To reiterate what Smartys said: anything you want applied all the time, regardless of the style the user has selected, put into base.css and anything that you want applied only to a specific style add to either style.css or style_cs.css.

ok. Finally! I added the code
#brdwelcome .conz {
        float: left;
        text-align: left;
        width: 100%
        display: block;
}
to the style sheet, and I changed both <ul class="conl"> and <ul class="conr"> in header.php to <ul class="conz">.
This seems to have solved both the alignment and the width problem (which was associated with conl and conr).

Dang that was tough.

Now I have a whole slew of new questions involving strange dots that have appeared outside of all my boxes wherever there is a link, and also links in general and why I can't get .blockmenu A:link (and hover, visited and active) to do what I say instead of doing what I've told .pun A:link to do.

Should I start threads for each of these? Register at that other board? Go away completely?

Many thanks again to all who helped me with my previous crisis.

Nope, the dots were there before I even tried to change the format of the contents of the Menu box. They appeared after I combined all the stylesheets into one. I found a fix for the dots at the other board, however.

The reason I made conz is because conl or conr [can't recall which, it must have been conl] had a width of 40% or some such. When what you suggested didn't work, I considered changing the stylesheet's code for conl, but I was reluctant because sure as the world that would have flubbed up some other aspect that relied on conl. So, I improvised.