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[secretlyevileen]

Hi :) New to expressive, but not custom themes, html or css. Your comm has been very helpful with getting started. :D

browser: firefox
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No theme selected, I'm using the user layer and an external stylesheet which you can view hereLink to the user layer

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[av8rmike]

Heh, simulpost! ;) For the width issues, check out the post I just made.
Date and time was covered a while ago; look under the date/time tag.
I've had problems centering the entry footer links too; For some reason

s don't seem to respond to positioning, but I can keep experimenting.

[secretlyevileen]

Cool, thanks. I've put text-aling center on almost every damn class that seemed relevant to the footer. I'll keep experimenting too.

[av8rmike]

Still coming up with nothing on centering the entry footer links, because any changes I make also affect the date and time position. That's something I'll have to blame on the Vox developers, because it's completely inexplicable why they're the same class. =(

Also, I hope you don't mind my snooping, but I noticed a couple of problems in your code. First, I would change the layer to a theme layer, not a user layer. Function overrides aren't supposed to go in user layers, and if you accidentally change something with the wizard, it will delete that user layer and replace it with its own. Just change the type in the first line to "theme" and add set base_theme = "__none"; to not load the theme style sheets.
Secondly, you didn't copy the part of the metadata function that prints the tags. Maybe this was intentional, but I just thought I'd point it out. There are easier ways to disable tag printing. ;)

[nimoloth]

I made the footer links move the the right with this:

.asset-meta-bottom { margin: 0 0 .75em; float: right; position: relative; bottom: 27px; }

The float tag is the key. Perhaps "float: center;" would center them. However, I suspect it also affects the date/time, and float doesn't work on IE at all, so if I look at my journal on IE the links and date/time are stuck underneath the mood etc. and title.

[nimoloth]

Actually, now that I look at it, I think I went into the code and made the footer links a new div called asset-meta-bottom, whereas asset-meta on it's own applies to the date/time as well.

[av8rmike]

Yes, I was going to say "there's no .asset-meta-bottom in the default style sheet" and "that's why your journal doesn't look right!" =)
"Center" isn't a valid value for float:, so that won't work, either. But why do you say "float" doesn't work at all in IE? This page would seem to disagree, at least for more current versions.

[nimoloth]

Well, the floats in my layout don't work on any IE I've tried, including the latest, and I've used floats in webpages and they still don't work out right in IE. I'll double check the latest IE when I've next got my laptop on (I'm on Linux here).

[nimoloth]

In any case, I suppose you could center them another way by putting them into their own div.

[secretlyevileen]

I wouldn't want to accidentally delete that stuff. And I didn't even realize my tags were gone. lol Thanks :)