CMS Made Simple Forums

Hi

I'm using CMS 1.0.2.

I am trying to fix or limit the length of the news bar on my home page. The more news I add, the longer the bar gets, with lots of empty space elsewhere!

Things I tried:
1. giving a height value to the news box "div#sidebar" in my general stylesheet, but then the news just overflows.
2. giving a height value to the "div#news" in the News stylesheet, but this has no effect on the box.

I could try limiting the number of news summaries that displays in the bar, but I would prefer something more exact.

Could I use the "overflow" property somewhere, or else somehow assign a fixed height to the news bar?

Thank you!!

Jane

Try giving it a fixed height with overflow:hidden...

Hi Mark

Thanks for your suggestion.

Good idea but not ideal - it hides the overflow but this means that half a random sentence gets cut off and it looks a bit shoddy, know what i mean?

Are there any other workarounds for this? Or does everyone who uses CMS Made Simple have incredily long newsbars?? They can't surely!!

Cheers
Jane

Well if you limit the number then you get the latest news and you can have a page with all the news, in summary, on it and click to read more, maybe say so in the news bar... or make the summaries real short...