bug report: a couple coding problems in the permalink (doesn't affect usability, but very noticeable)

[Transcix]

Hi there. I just wanted to report a couple glitches I come across. Here's an example, a permalink for a test thread I made in my forum:

http://x.986545.n3.nabble.com/test-tp2565669p2565669.html

As you can see I made my forum a fixed width and centered in the middle of the page. The problem is the date overlaps the avatar and the title, and also the menu "Reply | Threaded | More" is moved too far to the right.

The only custom CSS I used on my forum that might be relevant, is I think this:

body {
    max-width:800px;
    margin:auto;
}

Keep up the fine work, Nabble is really great!!

[GregChapman]

This is down to your CSS and how it interacts with code affecting the positioning of the post date

[span class="post-date float-left"]

and post menu

[div class="classic-right-menu shaded-bg-color weak-color"].

No doubt there would be further issues in threaded and list views and perhaps elsewhere where the styling is inherited from your [body] styling!

The simplest way to achieve your objective, of limiting the forum width and centring it would be to embed the forum in a page that contains the styling code you quoted.

[Transcix]

Oh OK sorry, I didn't realize that.

I needed a fixed width for the permalinks because if you let a dense brick of text extend as long as the browser window, then people with very wide screens will have a very tough time reading.

So what I'll do instead, and what I would recommend to others in the same situation, is just to set the max-width and margin:auto in the content of every individual post you'd be concerned to have a functional permalink for, using inline css. This solves all the problem.

[GregChapman]

That's not a problem!

Once you have embedded your forum, under OPTIONS > EMBEDDING OPTIONS you find an additional option, which allows allows you to redirect all forum links to the page in which your forum is embedded.

Even wheel-clicking or right-click and selecting "Open in new window" will still send you to your page with the forum embedded.

[Transcix]

Wow that's great, thanks a lot! :)