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Front end pages and fixed width content area
August 01, 2011, 05:42:59 am
Hi,

I have a Joomla tempalte with a fixed width content area. How do I tell civicrm fornt end content/tables what this width is so they don't spill over into my right hand menu?

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Re: Front end pages and fixed width content area
August 02, 2011, 11:44:46 am
you can edit CSS and look for .crm-container

However, sometimes the amount of data is so WIDE that it cannot fit in a narrow website.  CiviCRM doesn't like narrow websites.  There is not much to be done about this but make your site theme wider.
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Re: Front end pages and fixed width content area
August 02, 2011, 03:27:27 pm
Hi Stoob,

Thanks for the pointers, I'll take a look. I came to the same conclusion and therefore stopped showing the right column on certain civicrm front end pages in order to give the site a wider content area, this has solved the issues in nearly all cases.

Thanks though, now I can sort the css if I need to as well, I take it the other tihng I can do is edit the template files for the wider tables to remove fields or change the column widths?

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Re: Front end pages and fixed width content area
August 07, 2011, 11:57:13 pm
It's hard to set column widths reliably on CiviCRM pages when the width of the data can vary so widely.  But if you use "overflow: hidden" CSS judiciously that might help.


 
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