Been playing with CSS today for the message board system on BritLore. I want to take some code that Sixes wrote to display a list of message boards with unread threads on them. So I thought I’d be good an reuse all his code. There was no problem with the PHP side: that was easy! The CSS however…

Basically it comes down to how little advanced CSS I know! This is especially true of the positioning model and how multiple styles get agregated down to the final style applied to a given element. I’m quite pleased with the final result as I ended up with less than 10 new lines of CSS :)

Unfortunately we discovered that that SQL statement that generates this list takes a variable length of time between 3.5 and 7 seconds to run… and I called it again… I think I’ll have to do get the results from the first run through of that function.