Too Much Space Between Quotes

CMartucci

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#1 01-05-2008, 08:11 AM

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Too Much Space Between Quotes

There is too much space between quotes on my forum. Take a look:

PolitiCity - View Single Post - New Quotes - Whadya Think?

Here's the template I'm using for bbcode_quote:

PHP Code:

  <div style="margin:3px; margin-top:5px; <if condition="$show['iewidthfix']">width: 100%;</if>">

    <table cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">

    <tr>

        <td><div class="quote" style="margin-bottom:2px">

            <if condition="$show['username']">

                <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">

                    <phrase 1="$username">$vbphrase[originally_posted_by_x]</phrase>

                    <if condition="$postid"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$postid#post$postid" rel="nofollow"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/viewpost.gif" border="0" alt="$vbphrase[view_post]" /></a></if>

                </div>

                <blockquote class="bq" style="font-style:italic">$message</blockquote>

            <else />

                <blockquote class="bq" style="font-style:italic">$message</blockquote>

            </if>

        </div></td>

    </tr>

    </table>

</div>

So my first question is, how can I fix the space between quotes?

My second problem is, this is what the bbcode looks like when I edit the post:

PHP Code:

  [quote]Don't pay attention to this post[/quote]I'm testing something out.

 
[quote]Just ignore me....[/quote]Lol

Notice how the text and the quote are on the same line. I didn't type it that way. It had spaces between the quoted text and the new text. However, after clicking preview, it automatically put it on the same line. It shouldn't do this, because some people like to add different amounts of spacing between their quoted-text and what they type.

So my second question is, why is it automatically putting the quotes on the same line as the new text?

NOTE: Here's the CSS I added to modify the quotes:

PHP Code:

  .quote {

    margin:15px 10px;

    background: url(images/misc/q.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;

    padding-left:25px}

blockquote.bq {

    font: italic 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

    border-left:3px solid #ccc; 

    margin:0px;

    padding:0 5px}

Thank you.

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#2 01-05-2008, 11:16 AM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

Quote:

test

Quote:

test

Quote:

test

I think you just remove the spaced in the actual post to limit the space in quotes

Is this still to much space ?

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CMartucci

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#3 01-05-2008, 11:20 AM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

It won't let me change the space.

If I type this on my forum:

Quote:

[.quote]Quoted Text[/.quote]

New Text

And then press "Preview", it automatically changes it to this:

Quote:

[.quote]Quoted Text[/.quote]New Text

(Obviously without the dots. Lol.)

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#4 01-05-2008, 11:22 AM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

Quote:

test

test

Oh, I see
so it's the text after the quote that your wanting to change ?

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#5 01-05-2008, 11:24 AM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

PolitiCity - View Single Post - New Quotes - Whadya Think?

There's two problems. 1) The top margin is too wide. I didn't add that space between the first and the second quote. Like I said, the code looks like this:

Quote:

[.quote]Don't pay attention to this post[/.quote]I'm testing something out.

[.quote]Just ignore me....[/.quote]Lol

2) It's automatically changing the code like I said in my 3rd post here. I should be able to do this if I want...

Quote:

Test

Test (wide gap between quote and text)

But I can't do that. It automatically changes my bbcode.

EDIT: Okay, now it's letting me change the gap. However I still have that top margin issue. I'm going to mess around with the CSS.

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Last edited by CMartucci; 01-05-2008 at 11:32 AM.

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#6 01-05-2008, 11:52 AM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

I fixed it, nevermind. Thanks for helping out.

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#7 01-08-2008, 11:24 AM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

Quote:

Originally Posted by CMartucci

I fixed it, nevermind. Thanks for helping out.

Mind sharing how ?

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#8 01-08-2008, 04:48 PM

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Re: Too Much Space Between Quotes

The part about it automatically changing the code fixed itself. It just stopped doing it for some reason...lol.

But as for the margins, I had to edit the CSS.

Original CSS:

PHP Code:

  .quote {

    margin:15px 10px;

    background: url(images/misc/q.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;

    padding-left:25px}

blockquote.bq {

    font: italic 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

    border-left:3px solid #ccc; 

    margin:0px;

    padding:0 5px}

I changed that too:

PHP Code:

  .quote {

    margin:0px 5px;

    background: url(images/misc/q.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;

    padding-left:25px}

blockquote.bq {

    font: italic 10pt verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

    border-left:3px solid #ccc; 

    margin:0px 0px 6px;

    padding:0 5px}

I don't know why the original margin was 15px, that was WAY to big.

BTW, I recommend using these new quotes, it looks much better than the default vB quotes. Here's the mod: Better Quote Box (just like on vbulletin.org) - vBulletin.org Forum

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