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[Sailor Star Dust]

Is it possible to make the banner clickable and make it return you to the forum home screen? I find this very useful in other sites.

Seconding this, if it's possible!

[pwhodges]

OK, OK - I'll sort that. There's some logic to check through to make sure there's no conflict with the links that are overlaid on it, though; links can't be nested, so it probably needs some JavaScript to do it properly. In the first instance I could make the forum titles the link back.

EDIT:

The forum title is now a link back to the index page. Making the whole banner a link will be considerably more work, and I'll look at that later (too tied up with other things for a few days right now).

[Mr. Tines]

The forum title is now a link back to the index page.

It is a link back to the current page rather than to the forum root, because it's currently

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<a class="egf-link-back" href="">

rather than

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<a class="egf-link-back" href="/">

Putting

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<div class="headerbar" role="banner" onclick="location.href='/';">

along with

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div.headerbar { cursor: pointer; }

should do what is wanted -- it just won't show in the url hover preview in e.g. Firefox

[pwhodges]

Meh - it works on my test instance, and I wrote the code to be transferable across the different forum URLs without change.

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<a class="egf-link-back" href="/">

would be wrong on my test instance because the forum's not at the root of the domain; the code is actually

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<a class="egf-link-back" href="{U_SITE_HOME}">

to pick up the home URL. I'll try to work out what's gone wrong...

[pwhodges]

OK, the required code to do that generally was actually a bit more complicated:

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<a class="egf-link-back" href="<!-- IF U_SITE_HOME -->{U_SITE_HOME}<!-- ELSE -->{U_INDEX}<!-- ENDIF -->">

I'd found the later code you offered, but was going to try it out here first. Of course, it will require the same adjustment.

[Mr. Tines]

Going to

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http://forum.evageeks.org/

takes you to the same content as at

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http://forum.evageeks.org/index.php

, because the server defaults have been set up sensibly, in the same way that specifying index.html/index.htm is never required. But just to be certain, I tested this first by editing the link using the built in tools in Firefox, before my previous post, and it "just worked"™. Ditto testing the onclick behaviour.

[pwhodges]

It now all works using the combination of your onclick code and my corrected code. You get to see the URL over part of the sensitive area at least (because I've left the <a> in place round the title), and the code transfers between my test forum and the live instance without flaw, whether http or https.

[A.T. Fish]

I'm using Chrome and it's working fine. Thanks a lot! I know it's a minor improvement but having the whole banner as a "home button" of sorts is quite practical.

[Sicarius VI]

I apologize if someone already asked this... but what is with having to click twice on everything? Like notification, you go to one and it shows you it, then you go to the next one and it loads the same page you're on, then you need to go click it again to go to the different notification.

[Monk Ed]

but what is with having to click twice on everything? Like notification, you go to one and it shows you it, then you go to the next one and it loads the same page you're on, then you need to go click it again to go to the different notification.

I get extremely few notifications ever so I haven't run into this so I don't know what's wrong there if anything. Anybody else experiencing this?

[Bagheera]

I don't use notifications, as I've never been able to make sense of them. I just click on "unread posts" and go from there, and I don't have to double click anything when I do.