Sidebox Table & Image Problem

[anaesthesiac]

I increased the size of the top image thinking that it would cut out the gap between the top image and the middle. I've been messing with the font sizes and that seems to be the only way i can stop it happening, though for some reason the CURRENCY sidebox has a larger font even though i thought they were all running from the same bit of CSS.

nevertheless you've helped me a lot, thanks for taking the time, i really appreciate it.


cheers

[anaesthesiac]

Believe it or not i use Firefox and i have the Firebug extension! I've not used Firebug much though, i tend to focus on Audio & Graphic work with little to no knowledge of PHP/CSS but my partner who generally does all our coding/programming has been ill so i wanted to see if i could get the basics of this site running.

I think i need a beer now, you guys must have spent an infinite amount of time dealing with this system to understand it so thoroughly, and as i said before i do appreciate you taking the time to help me.

cheers

[gjh42]

The currencies heading, for no apparent reason, is a <label> inside the <h3>, and label elements have a slightly larger font-size applied to them. You can counteract this with a specific rule in your stylesheet:

.leftBoxHeading label {
    font-size: 1.0em;
    }

[anaesthesiac]

I have done that, while it changed the font size for currencies it didn't remove the gap.

Nevertheless i'm sure i'll figure something out. Mate if i could buy you a beer i would, thanks a lot for your time and help today.

cheers

Shayne

[gjh42]

Editing the top image to have longer "legs" would take care of it. It doesn't matter if the bottom of the bg gets cut off if it is straight lines.
The height difference is probably related in some way to there being a label element inside the h3 element.

Maybe there is a margin or padding on generic labels.

.leftBoxHeading label {
    font-size: 1.0em;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    }

[anaesthesiac]

Where would i go to remove the label contained in the H3 element? the Stylesheet?

For some reason i can't get any categories or expages to display in the left column as well. I've set up a test product category, as well as making numerous EZpages and have turned them both on in the ADMIN section but with no luck.

[gjh42]

Removing the label entirely would be done in the currencies sidebox module file (/includes/modules/sideboxes/your_template/currencies.php), line 38:

      $title =  '<label>' . BOX_HEADING_CURRENCIES . '</label>'; 

Change to

      $title =  BOX_HEADING_CURRENCIES; 

Do you have the categories and ez-pages sideboxes turned on for the left column?

[anaesthesiac]

cheers again.

and yes i do, i have EZpages and Categories turned on for the left column, and have tried alternating ON/OFF for single column status.

it doesn't seem to be adding any new sideboxes when i turn them on and off, whatever is there now seems to be all i can get to show.

[anaesthesiac]

The currency label remove worked perfectly, thank you.

[anaesthesiac]

All issues have been resolved, thanks a lot for your help bud!

Now onto the searchbox, i'm assuming i can use the same CSS/image combination to customize the header searchbox?