Greymatter Problem

[jet 0]

I have recently set up Greymatter (the blog software) on my account, and modified the header & footer accordingly so it would show the layout I wanted. You can see it here. When you see the part with the entry, two scrollers appear - a vertical one and a horizontal one. The entry is (obviously) a test entry, and all the text & content is viewable without either of the scrollers. So why are they there? I'm not familiar with Greymatter, so perhaps I've done something wrong and there's meant to be a "Disable Scrollbars when not Needed" button I have to click or something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.. Thanks in advance,
Jet

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

I don't know anything about graymatter either - but if you know where the template file that is used to generate the page is (it's usually in some sort of a template folder or named index.template.php - something similar to that..) If you cannot find it in any of the template php files, this part might reside in a .css file too.. usually any such files are prefixed with "template" or "style"

 

If u manage to spot the file, take a look into it - you'll find some code like this:

<style type="text/css">div.content {position: absolute;top: 45px;left: 25px;[tab][/tab]height: 445px;[tab][/tab]width: 400px;[tab][/tab]overflow: auto;border: 0;padding: 5px;}

See the parameters specifying the width and height ? Increase those by 10-20 pixels each and save the file.. Try reloading the page again and see..

The overflow: auto option that you see in that css, is whats making those scroll bars turn up.. If your content is larger than the specified area in width and height, it overflows using scrollbars.. That's what this piece of code means..

 

Try and let me know if you succeeded

 

All the best

[jet 0]

m^e, I tried your suggestion but it only did what I thought it would - it moved the scrollbars 10px to the right and down. They are still there, and as before there is no extra content they need to display. Thanks for trying to help though.. Any more suggestions?

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

See as long as the image is larger than the specified area, and overflow is set to auto, the scrollbars WILL turn up.. I learnt this while setting up a SMF board - the Avatar's used to turn up really ugly like that encased around with scroll bars. You can give it a second try though - increase the height and width by a good margin - say 60-80 pixels each and see the result.. If the picture area gets too big, you can always go back to the file and tone the figures down.. I say, give it one more shot this way and let me know. If it's still not fixed, we'll figure out some alternative :(All the best..

[jet 0]

I think we have a slight misunderstanding.. I know what the div overflow stuff means, I've been doing designs with them for several years. The problem I have with GreyMatter is that the scrollbars appear when there is not more content to show.