Dashboard nav bar

[mumblemutter]

I've been waiting forever for a fix that would make the navigation box wide enough to allow all list items to align properly (I've got my priorities straight, clearly) and this was the first thing I futzed with when the skins system went live. (Whee skins!)

In case it doesn't look the same to everyone else: for me the "My Dashboard" box was too narrow and items like "My Assignments (2)" or "My Related Works (2)" would break off into two lines, which looked messy to me. The following code fixes this:

#dashboard ul { width: 12.5em; } /* default: 10.5em */
#main.sidebar { margin: 1em auto 1em 14em; } /* default: 12em */

You can fiddle with the values until things look right to you. Assuming you care. :-D

(Psst, mod, I'm not sure how to tag this?)

Comments

[cesy]

It may be worth also sending this in as a suggestion via the Support form, to get them to change the default - it was set before some of the features with longer names were added.

I've also submitted a skin that makes it a horizontal list rather than a vertical list, which avoids this problem.

[mumblemutter]

I wrote them several months ago, all OMG THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY (without the caps), and the reply was that once skins were introduced people would be able to fix this themselves. I assume it's too much of a hassle to accommodate everyone and when in doubt, screen real estate for the main content trumps alignment nitpicks? (Haha, thanks for the tag!)