Component Help

Hiding Share (tell_friend) Icon from Linkbar and Separating Entry Icon from Entry Text

babyxdoll — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:20:59 GMT

Hi, I've never posted on here before but I am wondering how to Hide the "Share" (tell_friend) Icon from Linkbar, it's the big plus sized icon and it only appears on the top entry for some reason:

Also, how do we separate the icon used for the entry away from the entry itself? Also, how do you change the font information for the date on the top entry? I was able to change it for every other entry but for some reason it had no effect on the top entry. The sticky post. Here's a screen shot of the icon NOT separated from the post and the date:

Sorry if I this is posted wrong, just trying to learn new aspects of coding. Thank you! :)
Misty

What Did LJ's Userhead Code Change To?

buffy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:42:09 GMT

LJ must have changed the code for their userhead because now the LJ userhead is overlapping my custom image. Can anyone tell me what I need to change in my code so that my custom image overrides LJs?

Ok, I'm no CSS expert...

colleendetroit — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:47:14 GMT

...but I simply changed my sidebar from the right to the left and it doesn't appear 'wrong' when you go to read comments. The only problem is, I'd prefer my sidebar to be on the right. At this point (getting no real help from LiveJournal, as pasted below), I thought it was interesting and figured I should mention it here in case it might trigger an idea from someone who does know css. ;) I'm about ready to just try another layout if not just for a change, but I'm sure a 'fix' will come in time (from a helpful user, definitely not from LJ) and I still like component (when it's working right, of course). :P

This the code I changed to temporarily 'fix' my sidebar issue (chose 'left' instead of 'right'):

### POSITION OF YOUR DEFAULT SIDEBAR ###
  
  # Right, left or none?
  set comp_state = "left";

The last contact from LiveJournal regarding my request for help with this issue (that I made on behalf of all users with this problem):

"Thank your for your report, and I apologize for the delay in responding to your request. Because of the complexity of your question, it took longer than normal to provide an answer. It appears that your custom theme layer contains code that is no longer compatible with recent changes to the Component layout layer.

Unfortunately, it is simply not possible for LiveJournal developers to test every possible combination of users' customizations for conflicts when making changes. You will need to either edit your current custom theme layer so that its code is compatible with the current Component layout or change to one of the system-provided Component themes, which you can then customize to your liking. You can change to one of the system-provided themes from the "Choose Journal Style" page here [http://www.livejournal.com/customize/].

If you prefer to edit your current theme layer, you can do so from the "Your Styles" page here [http://www.livejournal.com/customize/advanced/styles.bml].

The FAQ linked above provides more information on how to use the Advanced Customization area."

Aw, hell.

colleendetroit — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:21:35 GMT

Took nearly a week for Livejournal to get back to my support request for the 'sudden' change to sidebars in August, but there remains no resolution. This was what I heard back:"Thank you for your report, and I apologize for the delay in responding to your request. We've tested the base Component styles, and are unable to reproduce this problem; the customizations made to your style are causing this to occur.

Due to the number of requests received, LiveJournal support volunteers do not provide one-on-one customization assistance such as this. This FAQ located at [http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=138] links to various resources for customizing your journal.

If none of these sources help you, you will need to look to a CSS tutorial on the web for further information. Alternatively, you may wish to look for a community that offers one-on-one customization support. Information on finding communities can be found at [http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=85]."

Well, as I didn't make any changes to my style to create this issue (and I responded to the 'support' as such), it seems to me that something within Livejournal suddenly changed when things got funky...yet it's up to us, the users, to figure it out. Nice.

:|

Hello? LJ? Bueller?

colleendetroit — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:51:56 GMT

It's been over a month since the sidebar of component has been whacked OUT (pushed down under the entry when you go to comment), so how come there hasn't been a fix yet by LJ? This seems like a long time for this issue to go unaddressed (unless I missed something in the LJ 'news')...but still a long time for layouts to be messed up. I've had component since I started with LJ almost 7 years ago, it would be a bummer to have to change just because this issue never gets resolved.

D:

eta: 9/13/12 I've opened an 'official' Support Request to LiveJournal regarding this issue. Hopefully it won't fall on deaf ears. @_@

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=1544353&

lj username

unreal — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:15:54 GMT

This started happening in IE recently and I'm hoping there is a fix for this.

See what's happening there. How can I fix this?

Chemo-Sabe: Help Save Mike!

kunzite1 — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:46:51 GMT

I posted a while back about my adventures in cancer treatment. Well, we've hit a snag. It's gone on longer than we had anticipated and we're moving into a new month of expenses. That means a new month of rent that we didn't plan for. Here's a post that I posted to my personal journal:

Surgeries are done! Yay! But we're not out of the woods yet! We don't have enough money to pay for our apartment rent for the month of May. May 1st is coming up very quickly and I'd like to have a home to come back to after I recover enough to survive a 3 hour car ride!

Please visit our blog for updates!

And remember... You Can't Stop The Signal!

Clickable Subject Lines?

slinkslowdown — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:49:16 GMT

I checked the tags, memories, etc. and couldn't find anything, so I guess I'll post and ask.

I'd like for subject lines to be a clickable link, leading to their post. Is that possible?

A reach out for help

kunzite1 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:04:46 GMT

Hello. I'm kunzite1. I helped create this community back in the early days of LiveJournal. I have been absent from the community for quite some time and for that I do apologize. A lot has happened in my life and now I need your help. I realize that it is against common LJ courtesy to not <lj-cut> a long post, but this is important.

I married a wonderful woman back in September, just before my birthday, and we have landed in a tight spot. She's drafted a letter that I will enclose below.

To whom it may concern,

Hello, my name is ephyra_pixie, and I would like to tell you a little about myself. I'm 24 years old. I live in a tiny apartment with my wonderful husband. I love my family, and my family loves me, we even have a cat. I'm not working right now, nor am I going to college, but I will be doing both very soon if I can help it. I want to own my own home, and my own business someday. Sounds very average right? Apparently not.

Now I would like to tell you a little bit about my husband. He's a 28-year-old, tall, skinny, kinda nerdy looking guy who likes to play computer games. He's very fond of me, and is very supportive of the aforementioned dreams of going to college and being a small business owner.

In August of 2010 my then boyfriend (now husband) was diagnosed with stage 2 testicular cancer. At the time we were both working, I lost my job somewhere between planning a quick wedding, personal dental surgeries, and taking my husband to the doctor. His job is sitting very uselessly in limbo at the moment. I was let go, being as all the absences were not covered by FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) as I had not been at my job very long. He could not go to work because if he wasn't recovering from a surgery, or chemotherapy, he was on so many chemicals he felt like he didn't know which way was up. Chemotherapy isn't any fun, I don't feel the need to elaborate on that.

After November of 2011, after dozens and dozens of phone calls, letters, emails and prayer, we were unable to keep up the insurance premiums, rent, car payments, and all the other bills. Until then I was able to make it work on a $500 a month budget, and whatever we had in savings, and borrowed from friends and family. We had finally run out of money. So now we don't have insurance. However, by some luck we were able to finish chemotherapy.

So here's the problem: Mike still needs a very expensive surgery, something to the tune of $100,000.00 and we don't have insurance. We currently live in the state of Oregon. Oregon Health Plan, right? Apparently not. We've applied for this coverage four times, and have been told he doesn't qualify four times.

However through this entire process, I have been been looking under every rock within eyesight for any kind of financial assistance. We have bad credit or no credit, so no loans or credit cards. We have contacted every agency anyone ever suggested and all that got us was a $100 gas card, and food stamps. (Just to weed out a couple of suggestions: I have called everyone, if you can find an agency I didn't contact I'll eat my freaking hat, O.K.?) Minus those two, we got a big fat stinking NO, or they were out of money, or we didn't qualify for a laundry list of stupid reasons (too young, too old, not a father, not terminal, not the right kind of cancer, we don't live in the right state, we haven't been poor long enough, not the right minority, that kind of stuff).

So here's my complaint, my issue, whatever. My husband is sick. Really, really sick. He will die if we don't take care of this. He doesn't have a toothache, he doesn't have a cold, we've been working through this for darn near 6 months, and he's not better yet. So, what would you do? How would you feel, if all you wanted to do was take care of someone you loved, and it felt like every bureaucratic bean counter didn't give a crap about your loved one because you were poor and normal. Well, that all being said, I care a lot about my husband, I would like to grow old with him, so would he.

So what are YOU gonna do about it? I just need enough of the right people to help, do what they advertise, fix my husband so he and I can go back to our jobs, and our lives, continue paying our taxes, and being productive members of society.

Thank you for reading this.
ephyra_pixie

If you've read this far, thank you. If you can help with ideas, please comment below. If you can help with monetary donations, please send via PayPal to miketrethewey@gmail.com.

Thank you for your time.

Changing the color of the line underneath the entry title

7thbullet — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:43:38 GMT

Anyone can help me with this? :D I couldn't figure out how to change that annoying black line's color. It's a single component layout and the original codes I got are from starstring. Everything is perfect except for this line >:|

I tried editing these over and over again but no luck :| A few friends told me its the .medLine and .dkLine but no luck~ I even replaced the "background" to "color" but nothing changes either(except that it got even worse LOL). I've already made sure there's no border at the bottom of the subject too.
.medLine {background: #fc93bb !important;}
.dkLine {background: #f87ead !important;}
.ltLine {background: #fdabca !important;}

Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much~! ♥

Navigation Component & Background Image

lovekate — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:12:24 GMT

I've searched everywhere but wasn't able to find answers to these questions.

1. If you go to my journal you can see my bg image has spaces in it, any way to fix it?
2. How do I go about removing the little white lines between the links in my nav bar?

Thanks for the help!

ex_devilish874 — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:20:34 GMT

i'd like to know whats the code to add a header if its not in the coding :(

cranes — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:33:28 GMT

Right now, my userpics are set to the left and I would like them to be set on the right instead; is it possible to do so?

My codes here. Thank you!

set entry_bgcolor as an image instead? SOLVED!

justduchess — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:45:26 GMT

I want to make either "A" or "B" in the below example and image instead of a color. However, in my code, these are listed as:

set comp_bgcolor = "#171717";
set comp_fgcolor = "#ffffff";
set entry_bgcolor = "#272727";
set header_bgcolor = "#000000";
set header_fgcolor = "#5e5e5e";

Can I make one of these a tiling image, like a background? For example, like in this layout I made of Smooth Sailing? rebel_shop The pixel fluer de lis on the side of the entries?

Thanks!

Custumizing the new spam button in the comment link bar

london_fan — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:41:02 GMT

Hi everyone.

LJ recently added a "spam" button in the comment linkbar. I use a tutorial to display my own images instead of the standard LJ buttons, but after the change there's the link text "spam" right in between my custom linkbar images:

Has anyone figured out how to either hide the new spam button/link completely or how to change it to a custom image, too? Any help with this is highly appreciated.

This is my code for the comment linkbar:

#===============================================
#
# POST COMMENT LINKBAR #
#
#===============================================

function Comment::print_linkbar() {

var string link_separator = " ";

# Initialize array/hashes.
  var string[] link_keyseq = [""];
  var string{} link_url = {"" => ""};
  var string{} link_caption = {"" => ""};
  var string{} link_image = {"" => ""};

var string print = "";

# Gather current linkbar.
  foreach var string link_key ($.link_keyseq) {
    var Link  link = $this->get_link($link_key);
    $link_url{$link_key} = $link.url;
    $link_caption{$link_key} = $link.caption;
    $link_image{$link_key} = $link.icon.url;
    $link_keyseq[size($link_keyseq)] = $link_key;
  }

##### START CONFIGURATION. THIS IS WHERE YOU SET YOUR OPTIONS. #####

### Images used as links. If you'd rather use your own, replace $*edit_comment_img, etc. with your URLs.

$link_image = {
        	"edit_comment" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/scalpell216x16.gif",
        	"delete_comment" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/poisonbottle.gif",
                "screen_comment" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/screenTVoff.gif",
        	"unscreen_comment" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/screenTVon-cuddy.gif",
        	"freeze_thread" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/frozenyogurtwithsprinkles.gif",
        	"unfreeze_thread" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/redmug16x16.gif",
        	"watch_thread" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/domepumps216x16.gif",
        	"watching_parent" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/whiteboardsquare16x16.gif",
        	"unwatch_thread" => "http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp174/london-fan/House%20related%2016x16%20icons/Icons%20for%20myself/sneakers16x16.gif",
                };

##### END CONFIGURATION. #####

##### DO NOT EDIT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CODE UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! #####

# Loop through linkbar and add links to print var.
  foreach var string link_key ($link_keyseq)
  {
    	if($link_url{$link_key} != "")
	{
      		$print = $print + """<a href="$link_url{$link_key}">""";
      		if($link_image{$link_key} != "")
		{
        		var string id = "";
        		if($link_key->contains("screen"))
			{
          			$id = "sus_";
        		}

if($link_key->contains("freeze"))
			{
          			$id = "fuf_";
        		}
        		$id = "$id$.talkid";
        		$print = $print + """<img id="$id" src="$link_image{$link_key}" alt="$link_caption{$link_key}" title="$link_caption{$link_key}" border="0" class="comment-img" />""";
      		} else {
        		$print = $print + "$link_caption{$link_key}";
      		}

$print = $print + "</a>$link_separator";
    	}
  }

# Hack off last separator.
  $print = $print->substr(0, $print->length() - $link_separator->length());

# We're done! Let's print it!
  print $print;
}

Edit:

Okay, I've kept going through the source codes and I figured it out for my layout code. I've got no idea if this solution works with all other tutorials.

The property pertaining to the new button is:

set text_multiform_opt_spam = "Spam";

Add it to your properties and delete the text between the quotation marks to remove the spam button/link completely. There will be a very small empty space, though.

If you just want to change the image you need to add the following code in the section where you edit all your comment linkbar image urls (for example "edit_comment" => "your image url",):

"spam_comment" => "your image url",

If you also add the property mentioned above you can change the "hover over image" link text there!

Hope that helps!

Code: Disable/Hide Radio Buttons/ Options in Reply Mode, Reply Form

yayhappens — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:11:18 GMT

Edit: I started this entry originally asking for code and just ended up doing it myself so I posted it under the cut)

--

If I or someone else wants to reply to a journal entry in my journal, the link opens to the reply mode screen and reply form which has an obnoxious list of things that just really don't apply.

It looks like THIS

EDIT:

I have some code that should remove all of it completely. *Enter it into a css portion of the Theme Layer.*

Unfortunately this version also removes other options to check spelling in Chrome, choose a userpic etc. In Firefox the basic options are still there to use. There is a different, updated code further down if you want to remove individual items instead of mass disabling.

#######################################
# REMOVE ALL POSTFORM LOGIN OPTIONS #
# YayHappens@LiveJournal.com #
#######################################

.b-postform-login-details {display: none;}

####################
# End POSTFORM CSS #
####################

Looks like this in Chrome:

Looks like this in FireFox:

-----

NEXT UPDATE: To individually choose which options to remove, the code looks as follows:

#######################################
# REMOVE POSTFORM LOGIN OPTIONS #
# YayHappens@LiveJournal.com #
#######################################

.b-postform-login-facebook {display: none:}
.b-postform-login-twitter {display: none;}
.b-postform-login-openid {display: none;}
.b-postform-login-mailru {display: none;}
.b-postform-login-vkontakte {display: none;}

####################
# End POSTFORM CSS #
####################

This is somehow buggy where; for me, FaceBook as an option is persistent and will always display. I'm not sure if this is because of a personal setting I have or not.

It will look like something along the lines of this:

Hope that helps!

maintainer help?

kunzite1 — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:48:24 GMT

hello. it's been forever and a day since i've been here. sorry. :(

i know that the tutorial entries are hosed. sorry. :(

i'm looking for someone who can get me up to speed on s2 and who can help me with the "get the tutorials rounded up and working again" project that i just now created.

i received a PM from raven_moon a while back and didn't receive a reply or maybe it got lost in the shuffle. please comment with a nomination for yourself or for someone else in the comments as a top-level comment. search to see if that person has already been nominated and reply to that comment instead of starting a new thread.

and... go!

permalink?

cranes — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:15:57 GMT

Hi guys, I've been trying to figure out how to add a permalink to my entries in the comments_linkbar section. I'd like it to be aligned to the center but when i set var bool show_permalink to true, the permalink appears to the right and my comments images get pushed to the center. Is there a way for me to keep my linkbar on the side of my entries and have the permalink appear in the center as well?

Here's my code.

Thank you for the help!

mysweetheaven — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:47:00 GMT

I have a few questions. First I wanted to add the Control Panel/Log In Component thats located in the tutorial section, but the link is no longer available or something. I cannot access it. Would anyone be able to help me with that?

Also, I have a probelm with my sidebar/component headers. I want the title to be centered, but I cannot for the life of me find a section in my code to do so. Can anyone help me?

I'm also wanting to have different font sizes within my sidebar/component itself Like Here and I'm not sure whats in my code thats holding me back from being able to do so.

here is the layout code

subject to be linked!

italic — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:10:53 GMT

i would like my subject headers to be all linked to the actual entry. my layout source is here. i've seen others ask for the same help but no one's replied to them. ): i appreciate any help and thank you in advance!

Tutorials, etc.

reality_hammer — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:56:47 GMT

Since a prior maintainer of this community felt it necessary to delete all the entries about how to actually do things (ahem) help can be obtained by checkout out similar topics for another layout:

http://community.livejournal.com/s2smoothsailing/79207.html

Unfortunately that community sometimes points back to this one for (now deleted) entries.

Spiffy Date Tutorial?

heysassy — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:48:37 GMT

I've searched high and low for the last 2 hours to find the 'Spiffy Date' tutorial. The original link for it Spiffy Date no longer exist.
Does anyone have the code to get my date look like this? EXAMPLE: http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll11/chlibrary/tut_previews/previewspiffydate.png

Thanks in advance :)

Adding image header to layout

buffy — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:05:08 GMT

The tutorial that used to be posted here was deleted, so can anybody tell me how to add an image header to my component layout? I'd like the header to be as wide as my entries + sidebar. How do I find out how wide that is?

Here's my style
Here's my code

Thanks in advance!

Sidebar as Topbar

marilla_pm67 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:01:36 GMT

Name: marilla_pm67
Account: Permanent

I would like to modify a layout I already have :
- This is the live preview
- This is the theme I use

I know the question may be disturbing, but is there a way to have the sidebar as topbar in a Component Layout, it's bugging me for a whiloe now.

I really like what I did there, and if I could add the sidebar alonside from the navigation links, it would be perfect, but sadly, I can't figure the code out for myself, so any help would be greatly appreciate.

Sam

Memories and Tutorial Links

marilla_pm67 — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:56:21 GMT

Hello is there a way to have the Memories and tutorial links updated?

Because Component is one of the most difficult layout and without the tuts, we, meaning the one who still love the to customize the layout are a little lost.

It would be more than awesome if someone would do that.

Thanks
Sam