Hei!

I’m working on my own Control Panel Theme but for any reason the tabs in the top naviagion are always centered and 100% wide.
I’d rather have to have tabs that are left-aligned and only as wide as needed.
I haven’t found any information about this and would be happy if someone could help me.

Thanks a lot!
Maurus

Breathe Makes Smoke - 05 September 2008 10:43 AM

Hei!

I’m working on my own Control Panel Theme but for any reason the tabs in the top naviagion are always centered and 100% wide.

Well, they’re inside a table so that’s what happens.

Breathe Makes Smoke - 05 September 2008 10:43 AM

I’d rather have to have tabs that are left-aligned and only as wide as needed.
I haven’t found any information about this and would be happy if someone could help me.

Thanks a lot!
Maurus

Text-alignment can be changed by setting text-align to left or right for .cpNavOff, .cpNavLocked in the CSS file that’s inside themes/cp_themes/default/default.css
Unfortunately, the width is specified in the markup itself.
Around line 858 in system/cp/cp.display.php sets the width:

Not sure it’s worth hacking one of the core files to get rid of it… I for one hope that in EE2.0 they lose all presentational data in the HTML, it would sure make the CP easier to skin.

Thanks a lot! I’ll take a look at it.

No prob
Don’t forget that a lot can be learned from picking apart the available control panel themes.
Another good tool for dissecting a webpage is the Firebug extension for Firefox, if you’re not using that already>

e-man - 09 September 2008 10:04 AM

... the available control panel themes ...

After just now viewing the screenshots of those themes, it strikes me odd.

Although it is the tiniest of print, it appears to say the version of EE during when the screenshots were made ...

v.1.1.1
v.1.1.1
v.1.4.0
v.1.1.1
v.1.1.1
v.1.1.1

Have the Control Panel Themes NOT changed that much over these past versions?!
or am I mistaken, and I’m just seeing things?!

The main CP skeleton has to be the same, so that’s why only color-variations are made to the current system.