SOLVED - Latest Events Module adding line breaks

by **groovmon** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:52 am

I'm having trouble getting rid of a couple line breaks that are showing up between the module title and the mod_events_latest_table.

When I turn off the option to display the module title, I still get these two mysterious line breaks.

They are not in my html and other modules that I put in that position don't have the problem. Any ideas about what I might be doing wrong here. That extra space is pretty ugly on the frontend.

Thanks

by **Tonyp** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:46 am

is there anything above that is not displayed?!

by **groovmon** » Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:24 pm

Hmmm... not sure I understand the question. Everything displays correctly. There's just a space between the module title and the table. If I put another module first in my sidebar, it displays fine. Then the lastest events module displays under, right where it should be, but with the same strange line breaks.

If I only put the lastest events module in the sidebar, same problem. I'm perplexed.

by **carcam** » Mon Oct 10, 2011 7:04 am

Latest events module does not insert any <br> above the table, so I think it might be a glitch of your template.

Did you check the template overrides looking for modifications ad-hoc for latest_events module?

by **groovmon** » Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:07 pm

Well I figured it out. I was causing the problem in my custom format string.

The problem string:
<td class="latestShowDate">${startDate(%b<br>%d)}</td>
<td class="latestShowTitle">${title}</td>

The problem here is the carriage return between the two <td> tags.

The working string:
<td class="latestShowDate">${startDate(%b<br>%d)}</td><td class="latestShowTitle">${title}</td>

This fixed it right up.

by **carcam** » Wed Oct 12, 2011 6:20 am

Yes, that's true, the line breaks in the format strings are replaced by <br>. Thank you for sharing!