Left Padding Frontpage Themed Vertical Navigation Buttons

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Don

This may be difficult for me to describe so I am desperately hoping one of
you guys/gals will see through my possibly poor description and figure out
what I am trying to achieve.

I am still learning FP2003 and not got very far yet.

I know how to create and apply themes. I can put vertical navigation onto
pages and all works well.

When I apply a theme to my vertical navigation I find that the text will
always butt hard up against the left side of the background graphic. This
looks unpleasant and I wish to somehow pad the text so that it will be
indented some from the left hand edge of the background.

I hope that makes sense to someone.

I look forward to any advice and will certainly get back to you if you need
further info from me.

Many thanks.

Don
 
What's the URL so we can take a look? Have you tried adding another table
column between the navigation and the content and then putting some space in
it to give you more room? For example, you could create a 1x1 pixel
transparent GIF, insert it into the cell and then set the width to 10 pixels
(or however much space you need) and the height to 1 pixel.
 
Don said:
This may be difficult for me to describe so I am desperately hoping one of
you guys/gals will see through my possibly poor description and figure out
what I am trying to achieve.

I am still learning FP2003 and not got very far yet.

I know how to create and apply themes. I can put vertical navigation onto
pages and all works well.

When I apply a theme to my vertical navigation I find that the text will
always butt hard up against the left side of the background graphic. This
looks unpleasant and I wish to somehow pad the text so that it will be
indented some from the left hand edge of the background.

I hope that makes sense to someone.

I look forward to any advice and will certainly get back to you if you
need further info from me.

Many thanks.

Don
Click to expand...

There is an example of the problem I have at:

http://81.179.110.162

Thank you.

Don
 
David Berry said:
What's the URL so we can take a look? Have you tried adding another table
column between the navigation and the content and then putting some space
in it to give you more room? For example, you could create a 1x1 pixel
transparent GIF, insert it into the cell and then set the width to 10
pixels (or however much space you need) and the height to 1 pixel.
Click to expand...


There is an example of the problem I have at:

http://81.179.110.162

Thank you David

Don
 
Try customizing the theme, in Graphics for Vertical Navigation try changing
the Alignment of the text...might work for ya.


|
| | > This may be difficult for me to describe so I am desperately hoping one
of
| > you guys/gals will see through my possibly poor description and figure
out
| > what I am trying to achieve.
| >
| > I am still learning FP2003 and not got very far yet.
| >
| > I know how to create and apply themes. I can put vertical navigation
onto
| > pages and all works well.
| >
| > When I apply a theme to my vertical navigation I find that the text will
| > always butt hard up against the left side of the background graphic.
This
| > looks unpleasant and I wish to somehow pad the text so that it will be
| > indented some from the left hand edge of the background.
| >
| > I hope that makes sense to someone.
| >
| > I look forward to any advice and will certainly get back to you if you
| > need further info from me.
| >
| > Many thanks.
| >
| > Don
|
| There is an example of the problem I have at:
|
| http://81.179.110.162
|
| Thank you.
|
| Don
|
|
 
Rob Giordano (Crash) said:
Try customizing the theme, in Graphics for Vertical Navigation try
changing
the Alignment of the text...might work for ya.
Click to expand...

Tried that Rob.

The only option I see is to align left, centre or right.

I do wish to left align but I also want to pad by 10px or so.

Don
 
That cannot be done with a theme. Nearest you can get is to use the
hyphen or underline characters to use as padding - not pretty.
Otherwise you are left with align left, centre or right.

With a little effort you can emulate the result you are looking for, but
you must forego the FrontPage navigation and maintain and build your own
navigation bars/buttons using the theme image backgrounds with a little
CSS to do the rollovers.
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Redo your theme vertical nav images to add 5 px of transparent space to them
- then Modify yours theme to use the new images

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| | > Try customizing the theme, in Graphics for Vertical Navigation try
| > changing
| > the Alignment of the text...might work for ya.
|
| Tried that Rob.
|
| The only option I see is to align left, centre or right.
|
| I do wish to left align but I also want to pad by 10px or so.
|
| Don
|
|
 
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