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

[Darrell Eifert]

Hello Jamie --

Thank you for the suggestions.  I may eventually have to go that route, 
but I was thinking that if Panels worked fine "out of the box" on the D6 
site, that I must be overlooking a simple setting in the D7 version that 
is resulting in the extra vertical spacing.  I would be surprised if the 
programmers released such a popular module that came pre-configured / 
hard-coded  to render a default page with such large vertical breaks ... 
(see attached screenshot).

Best,

Darrell Eifert
Lane Memorial Library
(603) 926-3368

On 11/28/2014 11:51 AM, Jamie Holly wrote:
> 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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