what defines the list of modules to go from top to bottom and not from left to right or right to left?

Instead of having the left or right block showing the list of blocks going down, what would it take to make then go sideways?

Just a thought.

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you are meaning.

I think you are saying, "What makes blocks display in a top to bottom order, versus a left to right order on my site?".

If I understood you correctly, the answer is the XHTML and CSS of your theme.

Most themes are structured so that blocks will flow down. You order them by assigning weight in the Blocks admin. However, if you want your blocks to flow left to right, you're going to have 2 options. The easy (read lazy) way, or the right way.

The easy way is to use a table and do an if loop on the table cells. While this is the easiest to do, it is ugly and it is not even remotely what W3C standards specify, so I don't recommend it.

The hard, but proper way would be to do a div loop where the divs have a fixed width. You will be limited in the number of divs by the width of the browsing user's screen. Any divs that extend beyond will automatically start a new row. This will take some tinkering in your CSS to get it right, but it is doable.

If I've missed the mark, let me know and I'll try again.

HTH.

James

You hit the nail on the head.

Is there a place you know of that I could learn this from?

Im making a new theme and this is going to be part of it, it was a last min, brain fart, but non the less, it would make for a unique theme thats up to date.

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Well, unfortunately, there isn't an example of a XOOPS theme currently available that does this. However, there is a nice layout available from http://csstinderbox.raykonline.com/ that uses a pure CSS table-less 3 over 4 column layout that would be an excellent starting point. I would also recommend making http://www.w3schools.com/ one of your biggest resources. It is where I picked up a lot of what I've learned.

HTH.

James