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[glottalstop Friend glottalstopJoin date: January 2009Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#137819

Hi there,

I am setting up the JA Zinc template (grass) on a currently simple site and cannot seem to get a Category/Section Blog Layout to work on multiple columns.
For example, the Section Blog Layout “Coaching” at http://www.ditchlingcolts.com/colts/coaching.html is set to
# Leading 1
# Intro 20
Columns 2
# Links 4
Multicolumn order – Across
but the content only travels down the first column

On inspecting the elements on the page
<td valign=”top” width=”50%” class=”article_column”> which seems OK, but
<td valign=”top” width=”50%” class=”article_column column_separator“> forces the articles into the first column below each other. This also happens on category blog layouts at two columns and above.

I’ve checked the CSS in template.css and I can’t see why the column_separator is picking up a 50% td as it’s set as
.column_separator {
padding: 0 25px;
}

I’m on Joomla 1.5.8 and haven’t edited any CSS or html for the template (yet).

Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mal

[Anonymous Moderator JA DeveloperJoin date: September 2014Posts: 9914Downloads:207Uploads:152 Thanks: 1789 Thanked: 2008 times in 1700 posts]

#289823

Hi glottalstop,

It is not a problem.

This cause is from # Intro 20.
There are only 6 articles in this section. For this reason, all articles only display at one column.

Please try with # Intro 6, you will see that your articles will display on two columns.

The structure displays articles in this page:

1 | 4
2 | 5
3 | 6
…..

Hope it helps.

[glottalstop Friend glottalstopJoin date: January 2009Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#289875

Hi JA Developer,

Thanks for the answer, it worked, but I think I have misunderstood something or there’s a problem with some code somewhere as the layout still isn’t correct.

I wanted the The structure display of the articles in this page to go across the page:
1 | 2
3 | 4
5 | 6
7 | 8 etc

As there will probably be more user-added articles, I didn’t want to have to constantly tweak the Intro value as the section filled up (so set it at 20, assuming that if there were fewer, the page would truncate). As I set the Multicolumn order to Across, I expected these settings to give me the layout above – but the content still goes down the first column and then the second, rather than as above.
Settings are now:
# Leading 1
# Intro 6
Columns 2
# Links 0
Multi Column Order – Across

And I get
1——-
2 | 5
3 | 6
4 | 7

Multi Column Order – Across isn’t working

Have I missed something here?
Many thanks.

[Simon Brandon Friend Simon BrandonJoin date: September 2014Posts: 11Downloads:2Uploads:1]

#290671

Hi

I find that really strange too. Is it unique to this template, because I have never come across that before?

Thanks,
Simon

[glottalstop Friend glottalstopJoin date: January 2009Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#292978

Hello?
Anyone have any solution to this problem of Multi Column Order, Across, not working in JA_Zinc (grass) in a Category/Section Blog Layout? THIS IS NOT ANSWERED properly yet, so could Mods un-tick that please.

[Anonymous Moderator JA DeveloperJoin date: September 2014Posts: 9914Downloads:207Uploads:152 Thanks: 1789 Thanked: 2008 times in 1700 posts]

#293465

Hi ,

Please go to the link http://www.joomlart.com/forums/topic/how-to-vary-layout-loop-in-blog-php-ja_news/ to referring

[mackas Friend mackasJoin date: November 2006Posts: 15Downloads:0Uploads:1 Thanks: 3]

#302796

This is an issue with Zeolite template too.

I want the structure to display the articles in this page going across the page:

1 | 2
3 | 4
5 | 6
7 | 8 etc

Cannont get the columns show category/section blog going across, even though have chosen directon to be across. Am using Joomla 1.5.8

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mackas

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