As most of you know in your profile page that is viewable to members there is a "Visitor messages" tab you can click and it brings you to the "Visitor messages" part of the profile where you can leave a message, the problem is it uses the same reply button as the "Private Message" does. So for example your private message reply button says "New PM" on it so does the reply button for the Visitor messages reply button, its the same exact button. It can be misleading because its a Visitor message not a private message. I want to have a separate reply button for the Visitor messages that is not affiliated with the "New PM" button. I looked in all the templates but seen no way to have separate buttons for the New PM and Visitor messages reply buttons, or at least I can't think of a way. I didn't find a template for the Visitors message area.

Anyone know a way to have separate buttons for the Visitor messages and New PM reply buttons?

I have set the forum so guests can view the Memberlist and user profiles so you can take a look if you need to, however you can't see the reply buttons unless you are logged in, but perhaps you won't need to see the buttons. I don't have a test account right now but could create one if need be. Although any punbb forum would have the same buttons.

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Hey runawayhorses,

Thanks for mentioning this, I too didn't like this either so I went and wrote something up in CSS for it.

Put this into your stylesheet and see if it replaces the images.

Code:

.new-message:before{
content:url('http://hitskin.com/themes/20/08/57/i_post.png');
position:relative;
}
.new-message img{
opacity:0;
position:relative;
right:96px;
}
#new-message-link:before{
content:url('http://hitskin.com/themes/20/08/57/i_post.png');
position:relative;
left:88px;
}
#new-message-link img{
opacity:0;
position:relative;
}

If it works this should be the effect(don't mind the locked bouton)


What I did is add a new image before the image we're replacing. For the replaced image we make sure that its relative so it will display on top of our new image(so its clickable), and turn its opacity to zero. All you need to do is replace the content images. If they're bigger you might need to increase the padding(left/right) for the replaced image to extend the clickable range.

I'm not sure about positioning, but you may need to edit it for your board specifically if it isn't positioned correctly.

Excellent Seth it worked like a charm!  

I made some minor positioning changes but that was to be expected. Well done, I'm very impressed with your skills as a coder, you are doing a knockout job.  

Thanks again, this is solved.