Chatbox html coding

by MustangMan99 April 10th 2010, 11:52 pm

I have found forumotion's html source for the chatbox

And I have tried editing it to fit on the left hand side of my forum, not the top or bottom, as a forum widget, so it follows people around and is easy to use. However, I cannot code, and was wondering how to change the width of the chatbox.

by SoNIcCheater April 19th 2010, 10:36 pm

Yeah, I was wondering that too. Could you give us the code to work off of! That would make it possible to help you.

by jackalraymaiden April 20th 2010, 11:33 am

I think its not possible, I would also want to do the same thing

by Codyy April 20th 2010, 2:30 pm

Well, it is possible but, it would be so cramped on your widgets. Because the text box is bigger than the whole width of the widgets.

As far as "how do you edit the width?", I will look on the code and get it to yah.

by MustangMan99 April 21st 2010, 11:08 pm

It is just the source code, not really html. My bad!

by MrMario April 21st 2010, 11:14 pm

Why not just use iframe and post it in the homepage message area?

Jalokim wrote:
You can can paste your chatbox anywhere you want.
A simple iframe does the trick.

You can paste this on any forum ... any website even outside of your forum.
Code:
<iframe src="/chatbox/chatbox.forum" width="810px" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe> <br>

that code you can use if its a forumotion forum.
if you want it on another site you have to add the direct url:
Code:
<iframe src="http://url of your forumotion forum/chatbox/chatbox.forum" width="810px" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe>

where ever you put the above code the chatbox from your forum will appear.

Another trick I learned is that you can use portals to hide stuff from members.
So if you want to create a chatbox only for staff members... all you do is create a new portal.
change its permissions to staff only.
then paste that above code into a new module that you create on the portal.

that way you can create a private chat only for staff.

to retrieve your second portals url , you can click the preview portal button on your second portal... all you gotta do is remove the SID info from the link.
the default link to a second portal is
http://yourforumaddress.com/portal.forum?pid=2

hope that helps