Limit Page Size of Posts in Topic

[Swift Rallycross]

I have found you are able to limit the amount of Topics per page but is there a way I can get it to start a new page of posts inside a topic? where I have my forum embedded in my webpage the size limits the amount of posts in a topic that can be seen.

[Peter <Nabble>]

You want to reduce the amount of topics per page so it starts a new page with less topics. Is that it?

Your webpage shouldn't cut the forum, the forum should adjust to it, unless it has some very uncommon formatting.

Would you mind posting a link where I can see the problem?

[mywaytoo]

The footer from my website page will always appear across the Forum / Blog / whatever... The only reason that it is not seen now on some pages of one website, is that I have physically placed it way, way, way down the (blank) page...

Scroll down this Blog and you will see the footer stretching across the Blog comments about half way down.

Scroll down my other Blog and it looks OK until you notice that my footer isn't there... This is shown in position on the forum here. Clearly this shows that the narrower footer of knit4dolls has been covered up completely by the Blog.

I was hoping that this might be sorted out with Nabble's forthcoming templates...

[Hugo <Nabble>]

Do you mean the Nabble footer or the footer of your website? If you mean the footer of your website, then something is wrong with your HTML page. Maybe you can try adding a paragraph or a table to the bottom of the page just to see if the embedded forum/blog will run over it.

[mywaytoo]

My item on my website page overlaps my Forum

This is the coding that I have used:
knit4dolls Forum
<script src="http://knit4dolls-blog-and-forum.977845.n3.nabble.com/embed/f2829497"></script>
Ooops... that first line is displayed as a link... but I guess you'd know that...  

Is there something I can do?

Edited: Look at this page too...
http://knit4dolls-blog-and-forum.977845.n3.nabble.com/Free-knitting-patterns-for-Barbie-doll-shoes-and-trainers-tp2981974p2981974.html

PS. Do you want some free knitting patterns?

[GregChapman]

mywaytoo wrote

My item on my website page overlaps my Forum
...
Is there something I can do?

Yes!  Stop using Intuit Sitebuilder to create the shell in which you embed your forum.

I recall an earlier issue you had with a footer that you placed miles down a page to allow room for your forum. That led to a discussion on WYSIWYG site building programs and web sites. Most of them advertise themselves as requiring "no knowledge of HTML" and allow you to drag things around the screen to position them. This is a thoroughly BAD idea!

The HTML that this approach generates contains a mass of "absolute positioning" code which is fine if you want to fix that element's position but, crucially, it doesn't allow other content any room for expansion.

I am not familiar with your program and can't advise in detail on how to stop this, but in general terms it's don't drag anything anywhere (The only concession I'll allow is to drag to the very top or left of the page. Content generally expands downwards and to the right, so it doesn't overlap stuff placed at the top or to the left.) and move on to some other way of building a site at the earliest opportunity.

[mywaytoo]

Greg... I know Intuit SiteBuilder is naff... and there are far more major issues than this one... but I'm stuck with it for the time being... So is there nothing I can do, perhaps something like that <br clear=all> after pictures???

Just say Yes or No... and I'll forget it altogether... Oh, except to ask whether Nabble templates might help me???

[GregChapman]

Hi Anne,

mywaytoo wrote

So is there nothing I can do, perhaps something like that <br clear=all> after pictures???

Just say Yes or No... and I'll forget it altogether... Oh, except to ask whether Nabble templates might help me???

In short the answer is No!

The only thing you can do is remove the absolute positioning code. I don't know whether/how you can do that with Sitebuilder. I doubt that you can for the following reasons...

Absolute positioning, means how far down and to the right, measured in pixels, the object sits on the page (plus how wide and high it is). That's why visual site building software uses it - it's easy to implement. However, once set in these programs, absolute positioning code is usually impossible to remove. This is because the code for it does not need to be inserted in the HTML in an order related to its position on the page and can be placed anywhere. These programs insert the HTML code for the various parts of the page in random order, depending more on the last editing action than position on the page.

If the program allowed you to remove the absolute positioning code, then your page would become utterly corrupt as the various objects jump to new positions depending on their position in the HTML and the target audience for the software wouldn't be able to unravel the code. Indeed, often the programs themselves can't fathom their own HTML code and rely on rebuilding it from a proprietary page definition file. In the program you are really editing that proprietary file and when you save the revised page the program generates a fresh HTML file from it.

From this you'll also see that Nabble templates won't help. The forum is just one more moveable object sitting on the page that you might have dragged into a new position to give it an absolute position.