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Brother Adam

I make pages mainly using tables so I can center and place everything how I want it. I want to have my forum show up inside of a table, but the only way I know how to do this is using an inline frame. These frames always look awkward though. Is there a way to make the inline frame take up the entire space of a cell in the table?

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That ought to be doable . . . but for the life of me, I'm not sure how.

If you make a table - one row wide and tall - that is your "page" size
and then insert another table inside that - say a few pixels inside on each side, you can then format the inner table for position

Having something like a forum running inside a table sounds a little dicey to me though . . . is your discussion forum something like what dUSt uses here and you use at flyfree? Doesn't the forum software do its own formatting?

I was thinking of looking at php (left a reference in Aloyisious' Chesterbel Enterprises thread to a free download of php Nuke) for discussion type pages . . . but had not worked up enough time . . . I just redid about half of one site using NVU - but there was nothing there as complex as you're asking

(here's the thread with the link to php [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=34816)"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/index.php?showtopic=34816)[/url]

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Brother Adam

The only thing I've found is increasing the inline height and width to 100%, but it still looks awkward and doesn't fill the cell. I know dust uses CSS and knows how to change the code in the forum in order to add the changes he does, and I now have PHP Designer 2005 (free from download.com) which I am trying to learn how to use, in which you can manipulate PHP, CSS and a whole array (unfortunately not TPL) of other styles.

I have the exact same Forum as Dust for Flyfree. It would be nice to have someone walk me through it though, as I know Dust is far more advanced than simply adding the forum to the Table.

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how do you do the inline frame in the first place? I can't even figure out how to do that and make it look awkward! lol

:even further behind than bro adam:

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Brother Adam

Here is a script for an inline frame:

<iframe name="I1" width="100%" height="100%" src="www.your-domain.com/inlinepage.html" marginwidth="1" marginheight="1">Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.</iframe>

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Brother Adam

lol. I still am having problem with the space at the top of one I'm playing with. You can see the extra grey bar:

[url="http://www.catholicsforcreation.com/playingwithinline.htm"]http://www.catholicsforcreation.com/playingwithinline.htm[/url]

Any ideas?

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that's odd. mine didn't do that, and I'm using phpBB too. maybe delete everything inside the table just to double check that nothing else is in there screwing it up, then put back the inline frame code

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so why'd mine work so easily and well?
[url="http://chesterbel.net/demo.html"]http://chesterbel.net/demo.html[/url]

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Brother Adam

I think I"ve got it. If you figure out how to change the backround color on the phpBB forum let me know please!

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yeah, you tell me if you figure it out too. I have a feeling there might be something in the template folder but then again it could be in the code for index.php

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