Question Topic headers (h2?) text squashed

Hi There,

I am using the default Kunena template, with Rocketthemes Panacea template. All up-to-date versions. I haven't yet been able to solve my squashed h2 titles. No other headers/titles are affected. I have tried disabling build titles span in Panacea, without no effect. I haven't been able to change it by adding letter spacing in css.

Any ideas please?

Many thanks,

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We could more easily address your problem if we had access to your forum and so, in lacking that ability, this is the general solution to your problem.

The issue is caused by your Joomla site template (in the way that <H2> text is rendered, and you will find the CSS rule buried in one of your site template CSS files. Using a tool like Firebug for Firefox (you can use other tools, if you like) will identify what rules affect the web content and you can then override those rules with your own. However, without seeing what exactly is causing the text compression, I can't tell you exactly what you need to fix.

Thanks for your quick reply, sozzled. Site's at an early stage of devel, so not avail for general audience yet. I'll pm you the details.

It's amazing what you can do with Firebug for Firefox if you can see a problem in a live context. One mouse-click is all it takes.

Your Joomla site template has the following rule definition:

h1, h2 {
letter-spacing: -2px;
line-height: 1em;
}

If you want all <H1> and <H2> tags to be squashed together on the whole of your site, then leave this alone, but that's the CSS definition used in your site template (located, in your case, in the folder ../libraries/gantry/css) and I have no idea why it's needed like that. Remove or deactivate the "letter-spacing" rule and your Kunena forum will be OK; something like this will do it:

h1, h2 {
// letter-spacing: -2px;
line-height: 1em;
}

You also asked me by PM to advise you why your Kunena menu is "invisible". Actually, the menu isn't invisible, it's only that you have not published . It's there but you have not published a link for it (or a module to display it). Easily fixed if you trash-burn-build your current menu links to your Kunena forum or read Customised Menus in the Wiki for the answers.

Alternatively, I could do this job for you (any one a number of people can do this job for you) but, as I will be out-of-town today, it will have to wait for another 24 hours at least before I am available.

Your site also exhibits the well-documented Rockettheme-Kunena "Quote button" partial occlusion issue. See the topic Quote Button - conflict with Rockettheme typography for the illustration of the problem and the answer to it.

As far as any other problems on your site are concerned, please start a new discussion topic for each one. Thank you.

sozzled wrote: }

If you want all <H1> and <H2> tags to be squashed together on the whole of your site, then leave this alone, but that's the CSS definition used in your site template (located, in your case, in the folder ../libraries/gantry/css) and I have no idea why it's needed like that. Remove or deactivate the "letter-spacing" rule and your Kunena forum will be OK; something like this will do it:

h1, h2 {
// letter-spacing: -2px;
line-height: 1em;
}

...Your site also exhibits the well-documented Rockettheme-Kunena "Quote button" partial occlusion issue. See the topic Quote Button - conflict with Rockettheme typography for the illustration of the problem and the answer to it.

Many thanks Sozzled. Commented out that code & more a couple of lines below - squashed text sorted. Menus sorted. Quote issue sorted!

You are a most helpful Megabeing.

Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with text spacing with another rt template.
new.tabletennis.gr/index.php/forum

However I cannot find the css file to fix it.

Thanks,


Denis

dimoss wrote: Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with text spacing with another rt template.
new.tabletennis.gr/index.php/forum

However I cannot find the css file to fix it.

Thanks,


Denis

Solved it!

Hello dimoss, I think there may be an easier way than commenting out the suggested lines as sozzled posted. It works yes but with RT themes in gantry you can select to turn off "build title spans" under advance for your particular forum menu. This should resolve the squash effect.

dimoss wrote:

dimoss wrote: Hi,

I have exactly the same problem with text spacing with another rt template.
new.tabletennis.gr/index.php/forum

However I cannot find the css file to fix it.

Thanks,


Denis

Solved it!

How did you solve it?

Do use a rokettheme?