Signatures with too much whitespace

Post by **dlh** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:23 am

What is going on with these signatures?

Note: I had more pictures, but you can only upload max three.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:37 am

It's not the signature, but the user info on the left.

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:44 am

What's wrong with this one?

Post by **dlh** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:04 am

Jonathan wrote:It's not the signature, but the user info on the left.

Indeed.

Fonkay · Post by **Fonkay** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:16 pm

Ummm... I don't have this problem. It all looks fine on my screen.

Post by **Tank Program** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:12 pm

Haven't they always been like that?

Post by **dlh** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:25 pm

Tank Program wrote:Haven't they always been like that?

Probably, but now that I have noticed it—it is kinda annoying.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:51 am

nemo: I did the same yesterday, but I removed it immediately because I hosted it on the computer I'm typing this on (according to my access log I was fast enough).

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:39 pm

No comment, removal or increase in size?

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:10 pm

the sigs are top justified and displayed directly below the message body so if the avatar/info is vertically larger than the message/sig then you will see extra white space below the sig, to fix this the sig should be bottom justified but that would requires a change to the phpbb code. and yes its always been that way.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:52 pm

I meant this.

Jonathan wrote:nemo: I did the same yesterday, but I removed it immediately because I hosted it on the computer I'm typing this on (according to my access log I was fast enough).

Btw, 'bottoming' the sig leaves the same amount of unused space.

Post by **Lucifer** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 10:54 pm

Jonathan wrote: Btw, 'bottoming' the sig leaves the same amount of unused space.

Yeah, just hides it. I don't know of a way to get rid of it, not without either making more whitespace in other places or moving stuff around so that there's less actual space for the posts. Since the whitespace is really just space that is available for posts that isn't always used, I'd just as soon keep it around.

(And since nemo brought it up, I've noticed it doesn't irritate me)

Edit: I take it back, I do know how to get rid of it. Put the user info that's on the left into a box and float: left; it. Then the post will just grow around that box, using only the amount of space it needs.

That won't completely get rid of it in the case of really small posts and really large user info boxes, though.