Shop/User/Gallery Lookups with the new layout...

[Duke of Earl]

I thought I'd post this...

I figured that with everyone's lookup now "ruined", now would be a good time to try and win the lookup spotlight, simply by fixing up my lookup.

I'd be done by now except that Neo apparently disabled scrollbars, such as those used on their very own Shop Blogs. (http://neopets.com/shopblogs.phtml)

Jeez TNT

[jade]

I figured since this thread already exists, I'd use it to ask for help. Does anyone know of any pet pages or web sites with coding help that works with the updated neopets site design? I think it would help everyone here, as well as myself, if any links you find are put here.

Here is one that some that I know of already:

http://www.neopets.com/~PBMushu

[Morningstar]

Thanks for the heads up, Duke of Earl. I was wondering why my scrollbar wasn't working. I managed to figure out how to get my background to work once again in my shops and galleries. The new coding looks something like this:
<style> body {background:url('http://www.imageshack.com/xxx/yyy/zzz/aaa.gif');}</style>
<style>#main {background:url(URLHERE) fixed}</style>

Just replace the http://www.imageshack.com/xxx/yyy/zzz/aaa.gif with the url of the image that you are using. Hope this helps anyone who is missing their background. As a side note, I read that Cloudneo's owners got so upset with Neopets's unannounced changes that it is no longer going to provide graphics to be used onNeopets. And that is a darned shame because Cloudneo is such an excellent site. Shame on TNT for not realizing that this would happen.

I figured since this thread already exists, I'd use it to ask for help. Does anyone know of any pet pages or web sites with coding help that works with the updated neopets site design? I think it would help everyone here, as well as myself, if any links you find are put here.

Here is one that some that I know of already:

http://www.neopets.com/~PBMushu

Here's one I found: http://www.neopets.com/~Ironyy The owner's user lookup is awesome by the way. Her username is April_Hawk.

Puddingedit: Double posting is against PPT rules. If you have something to add and you were the last to post, use the button at the top right of your post.

[orangehairedgurl]

Hi, everyone.

OK, so I've just updated my gallery. Made some new images, figured out how to put my background back in after staring at codes all afternoon. My question now is this: how do I put the items in my gallery into a table?

I've been trying for like an hour already, and I'm thinking maybe I'm just not doing something right, but I can't figure it out.

I want to put my gallery items in the table so it won't interfere with the background and would look much neater. Can anyone help me out?

[Demulesca]

I believe neopets is stepping towards web standards and validating HTML/XHTML.

Therefore, the reason why scrollbars will not work is because coloured scrollbars are considered incorrect coding and don't show in browsers like Firefox. Coloured scrollbars have been in this whole movement to try to faze them out only those who are not into web standards are still using them.

I hope that answers your concerns.

[Meer]

I tried to put my shop items into a table (that is, they're already in a table, but I tried to edit the style of the table, giving it a solid colored background and border. I think that's what your talking about, orangehairedgurl?) And it didn't work.

Is it possible with the new coding? If it is I don't know how.

[orangehairedgurl]

I tried to put my shop items into a table (that is, they're already in a table, but I tried to edit the style of the table, giving it a solid colored background and border. I think that's what your talking about, orangehairedgurl?) And it didn't work.

Is it possible with the new coding? If it is I don't know how.

That's the case in my shop too. They were in a table before, and they still are now but it looks weird. I tried to use the code in my shop for my gallery, but it didn't work.

I'm also thinking that maybe it's not possible with the new coding...

[Demulesca]

It's possible to change the background of your items in your shop. You just have to contain it in something else. The only downside to this method is that it includes the advertisement in the box, but it doesn't look too bad so you shouldn't worry.

Just open up a DIV at the end of your shop description and make sure it's ID'd as something. So at the end of your description, place this:

<div align="center"><div id="items">


Then in your stylesheet, define it as you want it to be styled:
#items {
background-color: black;
width: 500px;
color: white;
border: 3px solid blue;
font: 10px georgia, sans-serif;
}

[orangehairedgurl]

Thanks, Demulesca.

I tried it in my gallery but it didn't work. It just created a table above my items. Oh well. I guess I'll let it rest for now.

[Demulesca]

Thanks, Demulesca.

I tried it in my gallery but it didn't work. It just created a table above my items. Oh well. I guess I'll let it rest for now.

Sorry orange, I didn't test it for the gallery, just the shop.

I looked at the Gallery and there is no way to set your items inside a table because of the way they coded it. They put it into a table that isn't classed or ID's as anything. Thus you can't style it unless you style tables but that changes the whole page because they used tables for the entire page.

I'll play around with some CSS and let you know.

[Meer]

That's very annoying. They did a great job of IDing all the stuff in lookups, but I wish they would have ID'ed the item tables in shops and galleries.

Well at least making a div works for shops.


EDIT: (I figured I should post in this thread instead of making a new one...)

ACK!! My shop layout just got frelled up. 0.o
My text and items were contained in the class content, they were in a nice grey box, but now they're stretched across the whole screen.
Uh, it's hard for me to explain, but I got screenies. My shop used to look like this, now it looks like this.

I haven't touched my code, so it must be something that changed on Neo in the last few days. Anybody have any ideas on how I could fix this?