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  • @jac said in NodeBB customisation:

    I’ve just tried the instruction above. Unfortunately it comes up with an error when adding the code.

    Fixed. This is because you had

    @import url(‘https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Alfa+Slab+One&display=swap’);

    When it should be

    @import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Alfa+Slab+One&display=swap');

    I’m guessing this was a copy/paste ? 🙂 This happens all the time !

  • @jac said in NodeBB customisation:

    I also notice an alignment issue of the text and how to remove the other title that shows underneath? Clearly a work in progress so I do apologise and thank you for your patience.

    Yes, see below

    859bc79a-423d-43a5-ae98-4658e4aaa9aa-image.png

    This is caused by your text being too long to fit in the allocated space. There’s a couple of choices here

    • Make the text size smaller
    • Enlarge the size of the viewport to accommodate

    I personally wouldn’t recommend the second option as this isn’t really a fix and will look dire on mobile devices.

  • @jac said in NodeBB customisation:

    how to remove the other title that shows underneath?

    Primarily, with CSS, so

    .topic [component="post/header"] {
        display: none;
    }
    

    However, this may cause a conflict, so using this small function below (goes in Custom JS) will do the same thing but be more specific for the target

    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function (data) {
    	        if (window.location.href.indexOf("topic") > -1) {
                    console.log("This is a topic, so hide the stock header");
                                      $('.topic [component="post/header"]').hide();
                }
                else {
                        // Nothing to do
                }
    });
    
  • @phenomlab said in NodeBB customisation:

    @jac said in NodeBB customisation:

    how to remove the other title that shows underneath?

    Primarily, with CSS, so

    .topic [component="post/header"] {
        display: none;
    }
    

    However, this may cause a conflict, so using this small function below (goes in Custom JS) will do the same thing but be more specific for the target

    $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function (data) {
    	        if (window.location.href.indexOf("topic") > -1) {
                    console.log("This is a topic, so hide the stock header");
                                      $('.topic [component="post/header"]').hide();
                }
                else {
                        // Nothing to do
                }
    });
    

    Many thanks for all the answers mate. What to do 🤔. I suppose I’m happy for you to do the most logical solution and I’ll go with that 😁.

  • @jac The above is already active on your site, so nothing to do. You just need to make a decision re this

    This is caused by your text being too long to fit in the allocated space. There’s a couple of choices here

    Make the text size smaller

    Enlarge the size of the viewport to accommodate

    I personally wouldn’t recommend the second option as this isn’t really a fix and will look dire on mobile devices.

  • @phenomlab said in NodeBB customisation:

    @jac The above is already active on your site, so nothing to do. You just need to make a decision re this

    This is caused by your text being too long to fit in the allocated space. There’s a couple of choices here

    Make the text size smaller

    Enlarge the size of the viewport to accommodate

    I personally wouldn’t recommend the second option as this isn’t really a fix and will look dire on mobile devices.

    That’s fine mate, make the title text smaller then would you say? either that or go back to how it was if it’s easier and just change the font etc?

  • @jac said in NodeBB customisation:

    I suppose I’m happy for you to do the most logical solution and I’ll go with that .

    A more elegant approach would be this

    .Hero {
        min-height: 70px;
    }
    

    This way, we set the height minimum to 70px to get the same height when the text fits without issue. When the text is longer, the same <div> will expand to fit. So, you go from this

    e7b709f9-eb02-4d82-9d07-36c5c616d0c3-image.png

    To this

    61244bb9-4998-4d41-8bff-f7933f21200e-image.png

    I also added these two media queries to handle the text size on mobile devices (it’s huge otherwise and looks, well, nasty)

    @media (max-width: 767px) {
    h2.PageHero-title {
        font-size: 1.8rem !important;
    }
    }
    
    @media (min-width: 1200px) {
        h2.PageHero-title {
        font-size: 3rem;
    }
    }
    

    I think this looks better. It’s active on your site now.

  • @phenomlab said in NodeBB customisation:

    @jac said in NodeBB customisation:

    I suppose I’m happy for you to do the most logical solution and I’ll go with that .

    A more elegant approach would be this

    .Hero {
        min-height: 70px;
    }
    

    This way, we set the height minimum to 70px to get the same height when the text fits without issue. When the text is longer, the same <div> will expand to fit. So, you go from this

    e7b709f9-eb02-4d82-9d07-36c5c616d0c3-image.png

    To this

    61244bb9-4998-4d41-8bff-f7933f21200e-image.png

    I also added these two media queries to handle the text size on mobile devices (it’s huge otherwise and looks, well, nasty)

    @media (max-width: 767px) {
    h2.PageHero-title {
        font-size: 1.8rem !important;
    }
    }
    
    @media (min-width: 1200px) {
        h2.PageHero-title {
        font-size: 3rem;
    }
    }
    

    I think this looks better. It’s active on your site now.

    Many thanks mate for all the work! I really appreciate it. How do I add a new title font? And then a new category font if possible?

    Many thanks as always!

  • @jac You’d need to target the CSS class itself, so for the title font, you can use (substitute the font name for what you want to use)

    h2.PageHero-title {
        font-family: "Alfa Slab One";
    }
    

    And for category, are you sure you want to do this ? It may look overdone (in my view)

    b4c8d8f3-0edf-40dc-9170-dd1229a3fba3-image.png

    Unless you are looking for a specific font that isn’t as “out there” as the header ?

  • @phenomlab said in NodeBB customisation:

    @jac You’d need to target the CSS class itself, so for the title font, you can use (substitute the font name for what you want to use)

    h2.PageHero-title {
        font-family: "Alfa Slab One";
    }
    

    And for category, are you sure you want to do this ? It may look overdone (in my view)

    b4c8d8f3-0edf-40dc-9170-dd1229a3fba3-image.png

    Unless you are looking for a specific font that isn’t as “out there” as the header ?

    Thanks for the info mate.

    Yes I agree that font does look over the top mate. I’ll have a look out for something else.

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  • @jac Given your departure away from your previous project, I’m going to close this thread… 🙂


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    @eeeee if you’re using the console, you could try

    node app.js > app.log 2>&1

    This would redirect stdout to a file named app.log and redirect stderr to stdout.

    I’m not sure about standard logging under NodeBB, but there is an error log located at logs/error.log.

    Failing that, you could always stop the NodeBB service then use ./nodebb dev from the console which would then provide debug output.

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    @cagatay You’d target the body tag and use the below line of CSS

    background: url(/assets/customcss/backgrounds/default/default.png) no-repeat center center fixed;

    Obviously, you need to change the path to suit where your image is being stored.

    More info around the background property can be found here

    https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_background.php

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    @eveh Welcome board 🙂

    The code you are referring to is custom written as no such functionality exists under NodeBB. However, adding the functionality is relatively trivial. Below are the required steps

    Navigate to /admin/appearance/customise#custom-header Add the below code to your header, and save once completed <ol id="mainbanner" class="breadcrumb"><li id="addtext">Your Title Goes Here</li></ol> Navigate to /admin/appearance/customise#custom-js and add the below code, then save $(document).ready(function() { $(window).on('action:ajaxify.end', function(data) { // Initialise mainbanner ID, but hide it from view $('#mainbanner').hide(); var pathname = window.location.pathname; if (pathname === "/") { $("#addtext").text("Your Title"); $('#mainbanner').show(); } else {} // If we want to add a title to a sub page, uncomment the below and adjust accordingly //if (pathname === "/yourpath") { //$("#addtext").text("Your Title"); //$('#mainbanner').show(); //} }); }); Navigate to /admin/appearance/customise#custom-css and add the below CSS block .breadcrumb { right: 0; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; background: #0086c4; color: #ffffff; width: 100vw; position: relative; margin-left: -50vw; left: 50%; top: 50px; position: fixed; z-index: 1020; }

    Note, that you will need to adjust your CSS code to suit your own site / requirements.

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    @pwsincd hi. Just following up on this thread (I know it’s old) but was curious to understand if it’s still an issue or not ?

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    @pwsincd welcome to sudonix, and thanks for the comments. What your looking for is here

    https://sudonix.com/topic/195/nodebb-welcome-message/3?_=1648295651358

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    OMG make sense

    Thanks dude 🙂

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    @downpw ooops. Forgot that. Thanks for adding.

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    @phenomlab brilliant, many thanks Mark 😁