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(@sailordraco)
Posts: 14
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The spacing in my recent stories on my index page is out of wack. On some of the stories there is spacing between the story title and the summary, and on a few stories there isn't any spacing in that same spot. I checked those story summaries, and they are all spaced the same.

I have read a previous post on this topic:
https://efiction.org/forums/index.php?topic=6251.0

I followed everything in that thread and I'm still having this issue.

I'm using the latest version of efiction.

My Site: http://bssm.lady-otaku.net/
The skin in question is called SUMMER.

Here is my style sheet:

/* Some definitions used everywhere */
BODY {
background: #000;
color: #FFF;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

IMG {
border: 0;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
/* Header cells in tables throughout the site */
TH {
background: #000;
color: #FFF;
font-weight: bold;
}
/* links */
A {
color: #333;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: underline;
}
/* hovering links */
A:hover {
text-decoration: underline overline;
}

#container {
width: 85%;
margin: auto;
text-align: center;
background-color: #fff;
}

/* the box at the top of the page */
#banner {
height: 350px;
text-align: center;
background: #000000 url(images/group1.png) top left no-repeat;
}

#featured {
margin-left:400px;
text-align: left;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 15px;
color: #45377F;
}

/* The appearance of your site's name in the banner area*/
#sitename {
font-size: 44px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
}
/* The appearance of your site's slogan in the banner area */
#slogan {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #fff;
}
/* The location of the div containing the skin change drop menu  in the banner area */
#skin {
position: absolute;
right: 30px;
top: 25px;
}
/* The location of the div containing the RSS link in the banner area */
#rss {
position: absolute;
right: 50px;
top: 55px;
color: #fff;
}

/* the following defines your menu below the banner div */
/* the box around the menu and aligning the text to center */
#menu {
border-top: 3px double #A6A7D5;
border-bottom: 3px double #A6A7D5;
background: #000;
text-align: center;
color: #fff;
}
/* links in the menu */
#menu a {
color: #fff;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
padding-left: 4px;
padding-right: 4px;
}
/* Hovered links in the menu */
#menu a:hover {
background: #000;
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right: 2px;
border-left: 2px solid #FFF;
border-right: 2px solid #FFF;
color: #FFF;
}
/* The link for the currently displayed page in the menu */
#menu #current {
text-decoration: underline;
}
/* end menu setup */

/* the footer box at the bottom of the page */
#footer {
border-top: 3px double #A6A7D5;
background: #A6A7D5;
color: #FFF;
padding: 10px;
clear: both;
}

/* End universal page setup */

/* this is a carryover from 1.1.  Generally it is used around tables and table cells. */
.tblborder {
border: 1px solid #A6A7D5;
padding: 6px;
border-collapse: collapse;
color: #000;
}

/* Main page surrounds the text between the header and the footer. 
For IE, height is set to 650 to force the footer down to the bottom of the page where the content is short. 
And the second declaration is for everyone else so that it will scroll if longer but be a minimum of 650px
*/
#mainpage {
height: 550px;
padding-bottom: 1em;
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
}
html>body #mainpage {
height: auto;
min-height: 550px;
}

/* Most pages use pagetitle to format the page's title */
#pagetitle {
text-align: center;
font-size: 25px;
color: #333;
margin-top: 1em;
}

/*
Where there's a list of alphabet links #alphabet controls their look.
Just to make things simpler #pagelinks controls the look of the links at the bottom of multi-page results
and will be set here too. Generally, they look alike.
*/
/* the box around the links */
#alphabet, #pagelinks {
text-align: center;
word-spacing: -.3em;
margin: 1em;
}
/* each link */
#alphabet A, #pagelinks A {
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
background: #000;
border: 1px solid #A6A7D5;
border-collapse: collapse;
padding: 0 2px;
}
/* each link when hovered over */
#alphabet A:hover, #pagelinks A:hover {
background: #A6A7D5;
color: #333;
}
/* the currently selected letter and currently selected page */
#alphabet #current_letter, #pagelinks #currentpage {
background: #FFF;
color: #333;
font-weight: bold;
border: 1px solid #A6A7D5;
padding: 0 2px;
}
/* End alphabet and page link declarations */

/* labels throughout the site in forms and in other places */
LABEL, .classification {
color: #666;
font-weight: bold;
}
/* Admin options in various places.  */
.adminoptions {
color: #666;
font-weight: bold;
}

/* The listings of stories etc. */
/* .sectionheader styles the headings "Stories" and "Series" */
.sectionheader {
text-align: center;
font-size: 22px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #333;
}

/* The box around each individual story */
.listbox {
margin: 1em 5%;
border: 1px solid #000;
}

/* The title bar for each story box. */
.listbox .title {
background: #000;
padding: 6px;
padding-left: 8px;
color: #FFF;
font-weight: bold;
}
/* Because the background is black, the link colors need to be changed. */
.listbox .title A {
color: #CCC;
}
/* The content of the box...summary, categories, etc. */
.listbox .content {
padding: 6px;
}

/* The tail info published date etc. on the last line */
.listbox .tail {
background: #000;
padding: 6px;
color: #FFF;
}
/* And again because of the black background change the color of the links. */
.listbox .tail A {
color: #CCC;
}

/* The tail info published date etc. on the last line */
.listbox .tail {
padding: 6px;
}

/*End story/series listings */

/* titleblock is used for the title information in series and challenges */
#titleblock {
margin: 0 10%;
}

/* The pulldown jump menus on several pages. */
.jumpmenu {
text-align: right;
margin-right: 1em;
}

/* On the story page, there's a jumpmenu at the bottom. It looks better centered, so this will replace the declaration above for that
drop down list ONLY */
#pagelinks .jumpmenu {
text-align: center;
}

/* This is used on series and challenges and other places where a response is solicited */
.respond {
text-align: center;
padding: 6px;
}

/* The sort menu on the categories page */
#sort { text-align: center; }


/* On pages that don't use listings, the content is surrounded by a div labeled output to */
#output {
padding: 10px;
}

/* User Profile stuff */
/* The top list of information */
#profile {
margin: 1em 10%;
}
/* The sort menu in the profile */
#profile #sort {
text-align: right;
font-weight: bold;
color: #666;
}
/* The following declarations control the tabs */
/* The outer tab box */
#tabs {
background: #000;
border-top: 1px solid #000;
border-bottom: 1px solid #000;
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/* The individual tabs. */
#tabs span {
font-size: 12px;
background: #CCC;
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 3px;
}
/* Links in the tabs */

#tabs #active {
background: #FFF;
color: #666;
}

/* This controls the look of the blocks on the index page.  */

/* The box around the block */
.block {
margin: 1.5em;
border: 1px dotted #B2B2D3;
}


/* The block's title */
.block .title {
background: #fff;
color: #3A2E76;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
padding: 2px;
padding-left: 8px;
margin-bottom: 12px;
}

/* The block's content */
.block .content {
padding: 6px;
}

#leftindex {
width: 200px;
float: left;
}
html>body #leftindex {
margin-top: -1em;
}

#rightindex {
margin-left: 220px;
}
/* The next link at the bottom of a multi-chapter story */
#next { float: right; }
/* The previous link at the bottom of a multi-chapter story */
#prev { float: left; }

#browse #category_content { width: 95% !important; margin: 1em auto; }


.recentstory {padding-bottom: 12px;}

Thank you.


 
Posted : 21/09/2009 4:20 am
 kali
(@kali)
Posts: 307
Reputable Member
 

That might be because the author's put an extra space in their summary.

If you look at The Red Ribbon That Flew Restlessly In The Passing Wind, there's a space on the most recent AND on the actual story page.
For On the Half Chance, no space on index page and no space on the story page.

Try editing the story summaries themselves.


Skins made by Kali are no longer supported!

 
Posted : 21/09/2009 8:43 am
(@sailordraco)
Posts: 14
Active Member
Topic starter
 

I tried that. There's no extra space in the actual summaries or titles. All of the other skins on my site (which are made by Kali and not me) have the recent stories spaced properly. Although, on those skins the recent stories block is on the right side instead of in the center of the page.

Here is my variable.php if that has anything to do with it:

<?php
$blocks["categories"]["status"] = 2;
$blocks["featured"]["status"] =  '0';
$blocks["info"]["status"] = 2;
$blocks["menu"]["status"] = '1';
$blocks["menu"]["content"] = array (
  0 => 'home',
  1 => 'recent',
  2 => 'authors',
  3 => 'catslink',
  4 => 'titles',
  5 => 'series',
  6 => 'search',
  7 => 'tens',
  8 => 'challenges',
  9 => 'help',
  10 => 'contactus',
  11 => 'login',
  12 => 'logout',
  13 => 'adminarea');
$blocks["menu"]["style"] = 1;
$blocks["login"]["status"] = 2;
$blocks["random"]["status"] = 2;
$blocks["recent"]["status"] = 2;
$blocks['recent']['tpl'] = 0;
$blocks["skinchange"]["status"] = '1';
$blocks["news"]["status"] = 2;
?>

<?php
$blocks["menu"]["style"] = 1;
?>

 
Posted : 21/09/2009 6:29 pm
(@sailordraco)
Posts: 14
Active Member
Topic starter
 

It's suddenly displaying correctly out of the blue. Weird.


 
Posted : 21/09/2009 9:07 pm
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