Hi Guys,

For some reason the individual posts in the forum as I see it has all the text "Centred".

Apart from looking rather weird it's very difficult to read, especially on a wide screen monitor. Is this user fixable or do you need to set this up? Can we please have it "Justified left" as is the normal convention.

Apart from that congrats on a bright and colourful forum.

Geoff

Yes i am getting this as well.

David

Yes this is common and has been discussed before. I think it ended up being a browser issue, but feel free to do a search for the thread to get the correct answer.

Jon

Do what Jon?

Search for what exactly and where? ....and how can it be a browser issue? I'm not using anything non standard and I don't have any other issues with my browser so my gut feeling is that it's the way the forum software is set up? I'm not having a go here but I really don't see which forum would deal with this and if it came up in a specific product forum what search would I do?

Is this what the problem may be ?

http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=83320

Try this

Go to Windows/Run

Type in

then "CMD"

Then type in "ipconfig" and hit enter

then go to the page your having problems with

MARTIN

Thanks Martin but I have no problem viewing the site and I have no other issues with any other site. This surely has to be a setting in the forum software or coding and looking at what I can alter as a viewer it's not a a "user defined" parameter. It must be an administrator set issue? ......BUT if David and I are seeing the forum with all text "centered" and the rest of you are seeing it justified left it may be a browser issue. Having said that, and assuming David, like me, is seeing everything else in his current browser correctly then it may be that you are using different browsers or even that the person setting up the site has a different browser which has something fundamentally different set up in it? Narrowing it down it has to be with the forum software as the rest of the site has text justified normally (left)?

Geoff

As far we can tell, its IE7 centering for some reason.

Firefox shows it as normal,

Hi Dave.

This is certainly unusual, as the site was ok until the other day.

and i usually visit once a day to see what is going on and await your great models\ routes.

I cannot see any settings in IE7 which would case this and only get it here.

never mind i will keep looking and trying things.

Thanks

David

It's been like this in IE since the forum upgrade a few months ago now. Firefox seems to work ok though which was why I didn't know about the error during development. We are looking into for it (which will probably involve me re-building the template from the bottom up) but at the moment we have more pressing issues such as stock packs and products nearing completion which taking up too much time when I'm not doing my 'day' job (which is strangely at night lol)

Tony

well the stock packs etc. are more important then this.

i can put up with the justification.

( but not as important as your rest and relaxation time).

David

I forgot specify, its IE7 that's causing it. IE6 and PocketIE are still working as normal (that said I want to create a PDA template for the forum as well so it doesn'# kill the data connection or my WAP allowance )

Tony

I forgot specify, its IE7 that's causing it. IE6 and PocketIE are still working as normal (that said I want to create a PDA template for the forum as well so it doesn'# kill the data connection or my WAP allowance )

Tony

Hi Tony, Dave et al,

It's odd that it's only the Forum that it's affected. The rest of the site seems OK to me? In fact it avoids my favourite bug bear which is the folk who INSIST, because of an outdated "industry standard", in creating web sites for 800x600 resolution.

BTW stock packs obviously take precedence and I can live with it. Thought it might be a simple fix but if not....

Cheers

Geoff

It is only the forum that has been affected, its something to do with the CSS processing in IE7 because of the number of tables that are in use on the forum template. It's an almost default SubSilver template but with the header changed and enclosed in a table to allow the MT-URL image down the sides. I've narrowed it down to IE7 (and clones that use the IE dll's) as I had IE6 and FireFox on the internet machine and I access it using PocketIE for WinMobile6 on my PDA that I use for development testing. It was only when I tried it on my GF's PC which is IE7 did I find out it had an issue with the alignment.

With regards to the outdated industry standard, I try to build my website templates with either fixed 1024 resolution (I still only have a 1024 res monitor on my internet only PC) or (as with the new forum) create a non-fixed template with a header image that tiles on the horizontal axis (see the forum header image). I hate having to scroll on my small monitor, but I also hate having more whitespace on the widescreen monitor than actual text.

Tony

Dont think IE8 solves it - it makes it WORSE