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I've noticed that the gap between thread titles (or rather, the gap "around" thread titles) has suddenly grown. Is there any way to put it back or is this some sort of bug?

Here's what I mean:

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I have been thinking EXACTLY the same thing. mentioned it on IRC and no one seemed to realise / could be bothered to check.
At least it's not just me.

Must be something to do with the website as it's the same in every browser and I haven't changed anything since yesterday, at which point it was 'normal'.
 

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I've been trying to fiddle with the CSS of the page, but I can't find a way to change it. Using the Chrome extension "StyleBot", I applied the following CSS:


Code:
tr.__topic {
height: 10px;
}

And it made no difference, when it should have made them about 1/5 as tall. It's a little annoying that I can't fix this.
 

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It is because GBAtemp still uses tables for most layout which is a bit weird since IP Board 3 as well as all other modern forum software are written tableless. Tables can't be modified so easily via CSS.
 

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Well to be fair tables are still good for tabular data, and forum lists are tabular data. Yes site layouts shou;dn't be using tables, but that doesn't mean that tables should be totally removed from web pages, they still have their uses.

Anyways there's also padding and other things to take into account when determining cell size for tables, so try changing some of those to see which is at fault.
 

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Well to be fair tables are still good for tabular data, and forum lists are tabular data. Yes site layouts shou;dn't be using tables, but that doesn't mean that tables should be totally removed from web pages, they still have their uses.

Anyways there's also padding and other things to take into account when determining cell size for tables, so try changing some of those to see which is at fault.

I havn't changed anything though. :S It just suddenly stopped working this morning.
 

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Well to be fair tables are still good for tabular data, and forum lists are tabular data. Yes site layouts shou;dn't be using tables, but that doesn't mean that tables should be totally removed from web pages, they still have their uses.

In my opinion tables should not be used for a forum layout. The big disadvantage of this was always that anyone can deform the layout by posting for instance big images or long text paragraphs without spaces. You don't have this with a tableless layout.
 

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OK, I got it to look fairly normal with this CSS:


Code:
tr.__topic {
padding-top: 0;
padding-bottom: 0;
padding-left: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-right: 0;
height: 20px;
border-width: 0;
border-top-width: 0;
border-right-width: 0;
border-bottom-width: 0;
border-left-width: 0;
}

Tested with StyleBot for Chrome, should work with Stylish for Chrome/Firefox I think as well.

EDIT: Chances are most of those padding and border settings are completely irrelevant, but I couldn't be bothered testing to see which is the actual problem, and this way it works. Border is probably completely irrelevant, as are most likely right and left padding.
 

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I havn't changed anything though. :S It just suddenly stopped working this morning.
I meant sifjar.

In my opinion tables should not be used for a forum layout. The big disadvantage of this was always that anyone can deform the layout by posting for instance big images or long text paragraphs without spaces. You don't have this with a tableless layout.
I don't get the advantage over divs in the case of tabular data. I was only speaking thread lists, but even inside threads you won't have empty cells, and you can stretch a DIV out as well... assuming that the div doesn't have a max size set on it. Which you can also do in tables.
 

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What I meant was this:

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Another advantage is that a tableless layout is much easier to customize for administrators and its code is more readable, at least for me (I really hate working with tables).
 

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