Help again :P

[Joshee]

Well in this theme I am making, I have a cool looking description box in the category box.


My problem: If the category has no description, it looks like this.


Is there a way to fix that?

[combus]

Can you show us the code portion which does this? I don't know how you're doing it, so I can't really tell.

[Joshee]

Sure, should have thought of that
The code in the template is this:

Code:

<span class="description">{$forum['description']}</span>

And the CSS is this:

Code:

.description {
    background: #0077A3;
    padding: 3px 5px 3px 5px;
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    font-size: 11px;
}

[combus]

It's possible to do it with JS, but is not really recomended. But I guess you'd have to edit some stuff in MyBB files to make the description to be wraped into a tag when is called from the database, though, that would be a bit complex if you don't know how to modify this (just like me ).

So here's what I'd do with JS, using jQuery of course:

Code:

var description=$(".description").text();
if(description==""){
   $(".description").hide();
}

A really quick fix, but would do the trick.

[Joshee]

Thanks, but... Where do I put it?

[Joshee]

Nevermind, somehow when I just put 4 spaces in the description of the category, it goes away

[combus]

hmm that's pretty weird but if it works... I'm guessing it's alright. Just check it in some browser to see if it really works.

[Joshee]

Grr, it doesnt work in IE (Obviously)

[combus]

TBH, it surprises me that it works in any browser. I don't get how some spaces (which should be rendered as 1 space) can eliminate the padding on an element... but if it works

[Joshee]

I might not even be keeping the theme anyways, it has some problems in IE that make me not want to keep it. Mainly the rounded corners, because I rounded quite alot of the corners and it looks like crap in IE
Plus some other things in the theme the I wont go into much detail about, but yea, they dont looks good in IE, so I might get rid of it..