[columnsplit]

Alright so I released this new tag hours ago in Testing and floated the link in chat, but I realized maybe some "official" announcement here might be good.

ANNOUNCING [COLUMNSPLIT]

Use like this:

[columnsplit]left hand stuff
(note that content can span multiple lines)
||
right hand stuff
([colour=blue]BB Code[/colour] is fine too)[/columnsplit]

right hand stuff
(BB Code is fine too)

left hand stuff
(note that content can span multiple lines)

This tag just splits the post into two columns, left-justifying the left one and right-justifying the right. A line containing just "||" separates the content for the columns; anything before it goes on the left, anything after on the right. The main use for this will probably be for signatures, so that you can put your witty quotes and external forum advertisements on the same line as your gaudy sig image and not above or below it, saving valuable vertical space use can use to get the maximum 300 pixels of height like my garbage below.

Use this thread in Testing to see more examples of how to use it and just dick around with trying to break it.

(there is a bonus tag announcement in this thread, can you find it?)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Pew pew pew

Fuck awesome though CHz, what are you using, div tags?

Yeah, as Sheep said it's just a couple of divs, one floating right with text justification defaulting to the right. Thought about implementing it as divs floating left with width calculation to allow multiple equal-width columns like Paco tried to do, but this allows images and text to fill in space if they have to. That's also why nesting the tags doesn't necessarily do what you'd expect it to.

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I just verified the bug Zerg mentioned. With the WYSIWYG editor enabled, it does in fact break apart a columnsplit like that. The only possible explanation is that the WYSIWYG editor takes the HTML and CSS that the columnsplit generates and backconverts it into BB Code tags, and so the right alignment of the right column causes it to make right tags.



Anyway I meant for the columnsplit tag to be disabled in WYSIWYG in the first place so that one should be fixed now.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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columnsplit v2.0 now with very slightly less table breaking is now live

Also the right-column-overlaps-the-left thing works as intended. Other possible ways of handling that are adding a scrollbar to the left column if it's not displaying everything (didn't do this because it looks ugly as sin and if the right column completely covers it then no scrollbar will be shown) and having the columns appear staggered if there isn't enough room to have both next to each other (thus making the tag pointless).

How ya doing, buddy?