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The General

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The problem lies here:

#mainContainer {
margin: 22px auto 25px auto;
padding: 0 10px 0 30px;
min-width: 1000px;
z-index: 1;
}

Thanks in advance to whoever fixes it.
 
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Shrink

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I wasn't sure if you were referring to the physical positioning, or the quality of content the posts (not to mention the authors of the posts.):rolleyes: :D
 

The General

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I think it may have been set up this way to keep the site centered relative to the entire browser window including the scroll bar. Now that Lion has no scrollbars (so to speak), it is shifted to the right by 20 pixels.
 

sammich

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I think it may have been set up this way to keep the site centered relative to the entire browser window including the scroll bar. Now that Lion has no scrollbars (so to speak), it is shifted to the right by 20 pixels.

Yeah that seems like the most likely situation...although, with the scrollbar included, the right is 26 pixels and left 30 pixels.

But yes, if you want to see it truly centered, just inspect the page in Safari or Chrome and change the element yourself.
 

Peace

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It is off center.

I grabbed the lower right edge of the Safari browser and moved it to fit and it came out like this :

It's off center on my iPad too.
 

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Shrink

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I don't get it.:confused:

On my MBP, it looks dead center to me.

It's hard to see the white outline of the whole page - no ads.
 

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arn

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The problem lies here:

#mainContainer {
margin: 22px auto 25px auto;
padding: 0 10px 0 30px;
min-width: 1000px;
z-index: 1;
}

Thanks in advance to whoever fixes it.

It was actually on purpose at the time.

1. It looks better having a bit of a left margin when reading. 30 pixels to the left looks better than less.

2. The reason for the asymmetry was for small screens. Having excess white padding on the right causes the horizontal scroll bar to appear too easily.

arn
 

arn

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The website requires horizontal scrollbars on 1024x600 netbook resolution. This also means on 1x1 scaling on an ipad it technically needs scrollbars as well. This can be fixed if you allow the forum to be thinner if the window is small enough. This is in chrome.
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7363/capturemacrumors.png

ya, for 1024 rez, pick the "fluid" link at the bottom of the front page.

That allows should allow no scrollbars, but it will cause the top banner to get compressed/overlap.

arn
 

The General

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Cool story. Instructions to fix it client side in Safari:

1. Download and install the User CSS extension from here: http://code.grid.in.th/

2. Secondary click anywhere on any website and select Manage User CSS

3. Fill it out to look like this:
1WM8s.png


If you want extra space on the left like Arn suggested looks better, just set the number of pixels to 30 for both. I think 20 is fine. 10 is too close. It's up to you.

4. Click Save

Enjoy perfectly centered macrumors.
 

HarryPot

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Why aren't MR forums centered?

If I remember correctly, the forums were centered before. Now, the space in the left is bigger than the space in the right.

I've tried choosing the different layout options available with no success. Is this how it is intended to look?
 

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arn

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If I remember correctly, the forums were centered before. Now, the space in the left is bigger than the space in the right.

I've tried choosing the different layout options available with no success. Is this how it is intended to look?

Ya, that's how it is supposed to look. :)

The left margin needs to be there, otherwise, the text runs too close to the end of the screen.

The right margin is unimportant, and just causes the scroll bar to appear on small screens.

arn
 
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