[support] Drupal 6 --> 7 : reducing vertical space in Panels

[Jamie Holly]

You do not want to edit any files. Instead create a new theme that is a 
sub theme of the theme you are using and create a new CSS file in there, 
with the new rules you need.

https://www.drupal.org/node/225125

The other option is a custom module adding the new CSS file on 
hook_init, but going the subtheme is generally the best route.

 From your home page, right click on the panel that is spaced wrong and 
select "inspect element" (Chrome and Firefox). That will show you the 
DOM tree and the style rules applied to it. You may have to work up the 
tree, but find the one giving the padding and/or margins that is causing 
the problem. Copy that style rule to your new CSS sheet and adjust the 
padding and/or margin to what you want.

This is a pure CSS fix that is one of the basic fundamentals of building 
any site (Drupal or not). It won't affect the staff's ability to create 
announcements, as the fixes would be universal throughout the site.

Jamie Holly
http://hollyit.net

On 11/28/2014 11:29 AM, Darrell Eifert wrote:
> Hello Tony --
>
> Not sure ... we've pretty much used themes and modules "out of the 
> box" in creating the D6 site and they've worked remarkably well.   Our 
> staff is trained to use the Panels UI and creates announcement 
> 'snippets' on a regular basis to update the main page.  If I could 
> keep this functionality that would be fine -- what kind of css 
> modification were you thinking of, and to what files?
>
> -- Darrell
>
> On 11/28/2014 10:55 AM, Tony wrote:
>>
>> Would it not be easier to do it with css?
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2014 7:49 AM, "Darrell Eifert" <deifert at hampton.lib.nh.us 
>> <mailto:deifert at hampton.lib.nh.us>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello --
>>
>>     We just upgraded a copy of our Drupal 6 site using the Zen / CTI-Flex
>>     theme to Drupal 7 using an AtaptiveTheme base with the Mix and Match
>>     theme.  Everything went smoothly, except for how Panels behaves
>>     in the
>>     new D7 theme.  We have a simple two-column center panel between
>>     two side
>>     columns (see http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us for the current D6
>>     production
>>     site), and the D7 version of Panels creates an unacceptably huge
>>     amount
>>     of vertical white space between the panels.  If I change each
>>     individual
>>     panel to "no markup", the vertical panel space shrinks, but I
>>     also lose
>>     the side and center margins of the two columns, which I would
>>     like to keep.
>>
>>     Before I start trying to change the Panels module code, does
>>     anyone have
>>     a simple suggesting for reducing the vertical space between
>>     panels in a
>>     column?
>>
>>     Thanks in advance ...
>>
>>     Darrell Eifert
>>     Lane Memorial Library
>>     --
>>     [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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