A little HTML sidebar trick. Widgets up top.

Here's a tiny little trick that will allow you to choose ANY widgets to put at the top of your forum.

This will allow you to choose any widgets to go at the top, but still have widgets at the side of your forum.

Here's a quick example screenshot:

It doesn't look great in that picture obviously, because I haven't done anything with it.

But see how there is still a sidebar and also widgets at top?

Its easy, just create a new custom widget, select 'table type' as NO.
Then add this HTML to it:

Code:

</div><div>

Save it.

Easy.

Now to use it, stick it on your sidebar above any widgets you want to go to the top of the forum.
Because any widgets BELOW this new widget will go to the top. Try it out

Interesting! This could be very useful indeed

easy but very useful.thanks LG.

anyway to put the widget only at home?

Best way of doing that, would be to hide the sidebar with CSS, but then put some CSS in the homepage message to show the sidebar. Hence only showing it on the home.

The way this works, is it adds a closing DIV tag into your sidebar, which means it ends the sidebar early. So any widgets from then on are not part of the sidebar and so do not float at the side of your forum.
It then has the opening DIV tag in it, because this will encapsulate the rest of the widgets within a DIV, because the original closing DIV tag of the sidebar will still be at the end of these widgets. You could even add an ID to that opening DIV tag, something like 'topWidgets' and style it from the CSS.

Just thought i'd tell everyone. lol.

This is genius, LG! Thanks for sharing.

BTW, I see you got the "Thanks" button working for other browsers now. It works fine on my TouchPad.