[DarkWhite]

Not entirely sure about how I should be going about this, but I'd like t set up two columns in my sig, for two entirely different sets of information. Just simply doing by manually spacing things wouldn't work because the two areas of text need to be entirely independent of each other. I've tried doing a table, but was tols my sig is too long, so couldn't see if it would even work in the first place. Also, any mods feel free to move this if needed, but it seemed the only appropraite place for one needing tech support on the forums.

[redduc900]

Do you mean like this?...

P2 965 (@3.8GHz and counting).........Razer AC-1 Gaming Audio
Asus M4A79T Deluxe...........................M-Audio Delta1010LT Audio
XFX Radeon HD 4850..........................OC Z Gold DDR3 1600 RAM
WD Caviar Black 320GB HDD...............Xoxide's X-Clear Acrylic Case

[DarkWhite]

Yes, except I'd be having system specs at one size on the left, and an entirely different block of text, including different size, on the right.
As I said in the above post, they need to be completely independent of each other.

[tinymouse2]

As you can see here, you can change colour for text on the same line, font and size as shown ^

Is that what your asking? how to do?

[DarkWhite]

no, because if I have two different sizes of text, they are still connected and that's my problem.
Let me demonstrate

Line 1 of Specs.............Line 1 of other
Line 2 of specs.............Line 2 of other
Line 3 of specs.............Line 3 of other
Line 4 of specs.............Line 4 of other
Line 5 of specs.............Line 5 of other
Line 6 of specs.............Line 6 of other
Line 7 of specs.............Line 7 of other

As you can see, each linel ines up, Line 1 is always attached to line 1, and line 2 is attached to line 2. I want it so that the lines don't have to be attached, so I could have 5 lines of 3-point text next to 10 lines of 1-point text, while they take the same amount of space

[Wicked Klown]

Originally Posted by DarkWhite

so I could have 5 lines of 3-point text next to 10 lines of 1-point text, while they take the same amount of space
[/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE]

Just one small problem with having 15 lines of text. The forum rules only allow 12 lines. Just having 5 lines of size 3 would put you over the limit. Size 3 counts as 1.5 lines.


Aslo just do it like
Line 1
Line 1
Line 2
Line 2
Line 3
Line 3

[Enablingwolf]

Would justifying the text work?

We have three justy tags that work in the sigs. [left] [center] and [right].

In theory, it would give you three columns. All you would have to do is wrap each spec in it's own jusitfy tag.

P2 965 (@3.8GHz and counting)

Razer AC-1 Gaming Audio

Asus M4A79T Deluxe

M-Audio Delta1010LT Audio

XFX Radeon HD 4850

OC Z Gold DDR3 1600 RAM

WD Caviar Black 320GB HDD

Xoxide's X-Clear Acrylic Case

[DarkWhite]

Again, it would only work if the text was the same number of lines.

[I.M.O.G.]

Not possible to do elegantly, BBcode doesn't support it.

It would require html to arrange them independently. HTML is not enabled, and can't be enabled for technical reasons.

If you browse the forums, you can see examples of how other members work around this. Basically, you use characters to space items, which you can make invisible if you don't want them to appear. In your example, the periods used for spacing could be made invisible so they don't appear to be attached - just use the color code which matches the forum background.

[DarkWhite]

dang, I guess I'm staying as is...........
also, just a side note to IMOG, now that there are multiple skins, would that not mean that the dots can't be completely invisible?

[I.M.O.G.]

Correct, anyone who uses the light skin is going to deal with a lot of problems with color. Related to sigs, as well as with posts. Possibly also with usernames, unless the CSS has accounted for that. I haven't spent much time trying it out, but maybe the skin designer accounted for usernames.

[Enablingwolf]

An option in sig design... Not using the technicals of it. Make a faux table. Hightlight the colors and point to the fact your trying for order. You would have to be very crafty. IMO crafty sigs simply just rule.

I hold to 5 points describe a machine well.

_____________________________
CPU........DPU........EPU
RAM.......STU.........TTU
GPU.......HPU.........IPU
MB..........NB............OB
OS.ver...OSver.......OSver
_____________________________

The limits are not to make life harder or screw with us. It is a security thing. Which I agree with and understand. All or none for HTML. It would take a pretty heavy mod and some special stuff to make it otherwise.

Just be creative on the limits. I got used to making pages for IE6/IW7 special... I might be jaded, but I just keep in mind, sometimes things are what they are. Then - I work with what I got.

All I can say is.... Embrace the limits and show upper hand creativity. I do understand your side though and wish there was not jerks who took advantage of HTML and made it not work on most BBS sites. Be it as it may We work with what we have.

[mbentley]

without support for tables (which is not included in vbulletin by default), what you are looking to do isn't possible as others mentioned. there are vbulletin code additions that can be added to add tables to a vbulletin, but i highly doubt that they will be added to ocforums. the code formatting isn't very simple for your typical user to format. (example of tables in vbulletin)