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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello Jamie --<br>
<br>
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).<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Best,
Darrell Eifert
Lane Memorial Library
(603) 926-3368</pre>
On 11/28/2014 11:51 AM, Jamie Holly wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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. <br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.drupal.org/node/225125">https://www.drupal.org/node/225125</a><br>
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The other option is a custom module adding the new CSS file on
hook_init, but going the subtheme is generally the best route.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
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. <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Jamie Holly
<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hollyit.net">http://hollyit.net</a></pre>
On 11/28/2014 11:29 AM, Darrell Eifert wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello Tony --<br>
<br>
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?<br>
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-- Darrell<br>
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On 11/28/2014 10:55 AM, Tony wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">Would it not be easier to do it with css?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2014 7:49 AM, "Darrell
Eifert" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:deifert@hampton.lib.nh.us">deifert@hampton.lib.nh.us</a>>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello --<br>
<br>
We just upgraded a copy of our Drupal 6 site using the Zen
/ CTI-Flex<br>
theme to Drupal 7 using an AtaptiveTheme base with the Mix
and Match<br>
theme. Everything went smoothly, except for how Panels
behaves in the<br>
new D7 theme. We have a simple two-column center panel
between two side<br>
columns (see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us" target="_blank">http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us</a>
for the current D6 production<br>
site), and the D7 version of Panels creates an
unacceptably huge amount<br>
of vertical white space between the panels. If I change
each individual<br>
panel to "no markup", the vertical panel space shrinks,
but I also lose<br>
the side and center margins of the two columns, which I
would like to keep.<br>
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Before I start trying to change the Panels module code,
does anyone have<br>
a simple suggesting for reducing the vertical space
between panels in a<br>
column?<br>
<br>
Thanks in advance ...<br>
<br>
Darrell Eifert<br>
Lane Memorial Library<br>
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