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making comments page a certain length??

1 Apr 11, 2007 16:26    

My b2evolution Version:

First of all I am using 1.6, with a custom skin. Here is my problem- I have the blog in a frame within my site. I have to do it this way because we are a News website with a certian look, and for hit tracking. I can only make the frame 5000 pixels long for maximum. The comments sometimes scroll beyond this and get cut off. They would scroll forever- and that is not what we want! Is there a way to make the comment pages a specified lenght- so you could click on "Next Page" for a continuance of the comments. Or maybe even have comments pop up in another window would work. The skin is a modified skin from Francois Planque...

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I need to get this fixed ASAP!

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2 Apr 11, 2007 16:34

Actually- I wanted to give the URL of the site you can see what I am talking about:

http://ww2.wpri.com/Global/link.asp?L=235608

I was able to limit the number of posts on that main page, so you then click "Next Page" - but is there a way to do it on the Comments page??

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3 Apr 12, 2007 08:10

I noticed that your code for the frame1 (where your blog resides) has scrolling set to "no."

<IFRAME ID="Frame1" NAME="Frame1" WIDTH="99%" FRAMEBORDER="0" MARGINHEIGHT="1" MARGINWIDTH="1" ONLOAD="javascript:scrollParentTop();" SRC="http://www.wpri.com/blogs/index.php?blog=1" HEIGHT="5000" SCROLLING="No">

If you set that to "yes," wouldn't that solve your problem? With scrolling set to "Yes," you might could also play with your height (which is the length) at different amounts for the best page look (unless they want it at 5000 for the rest of the site). Sure, those blog posts with 145 comment entries could then be scrolled by a reader all the way to the end (which, of course, is the beginning), but since the frame window would always stay the fixed "height"... the mouseable scrolling tools on the side of the frame would make the scrolling quite feasible (and not an ungainly mess).

And incidentally, those vertical scrolling bars (if you set scrolling to yes), at the right edge of your frame will be "greyed out" or "ghosted" anytime you are viewing anything that is less than your height (5000 pixels) and only kick in for use, when your reader is faced with one of those pages with the very long comment threads.

As an example, here is your blog displayed in a frame with scrolling set to yes and a height of only 2000 pixels (still perhaps more than you need). You can see that it displays quite nicely and scrolling is only necessary with very long posting or comment situations (as occurs in your Immigration blog).

http://samredman.com/tstat

I think you will agree that it looks quite nice and it sure handles that long comments page under immigration quite well.

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4 Apr 17, 2007 20:11

Thanks- that does work. I am not crazy about double scrollbars. I was hoping there was a way to do it with B2...but this is better than nothing!

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