No Thread Stretch

Minimum Requirements:
phpBB 2.0*
PHP 4.1.0†
JavaScript

Page Updated: Jul 08, 2006

Page stretching is something with which almost any user of a phpBB site will be familiar. That widening of a page that occurs when wide images, long lines of text, and even some code blocks are posted can be very annoying and even destroy a page's layout completely. No Thread Stretch helps to alleviate this problem.

The hack uses combinations of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets to limit the width of messages to a certain number of pixels, based on the user's screen resolution. Posts that go over this width have scrollbars added - not to the entire page, but to just that post. Your page layout is preserved and you don't have to scroll a long way to read the other posts in the topic!

Features of No Thread Stretch 1.3.0

Resizes posts based on viewer's screen resolution.
Includes instructions for redIce template.

Also Available At

This refinement can also be downloaded from the following sites. They may have a slightly older version; new releases are posted here before being submitted to these sites. These are the only "official mirror" sites where this refinement is submitted.

phpBBHacks.com Download Listing

Additional Notes

† This download was tested only with PHP 4, but is expected to work on PHP 5 also.

* This add-on is expected to function on any phpBB 2.0.x release.

Designed for the subSilver template. Many other templates require adjustments for any noticable affect.