[ZendTo] Trim the Login button

[Jules]

And my answer re-posted to the list as I didn't just now by mistake...

On 04/05/2017 09:49, Jules wrote:
> Jarett,
>
> All you need to do is slightly over-ride the CSS for drawing that 
> login box.
> Edit /opt/zendto/www/css/local.css and add this to it:
>
> #loginForm {
>   width: 500px;
> }
>
> and refresh your web browser. The login box should have just shrunk to 
> 500 pixels wide.
>
> Any changes or additions you make to local.css will be kept over 
> future upgrades, so you won't have to fix it again.
>
> And I think it probably looks better that width anyway, to be quite 
> honest. I had never really noticed the empty yellow space to the right 
> of the Login button until you mentioned it. But reducing that space 
> now might cause problems for people who may have translated it into a 
> language where "Login" is a longer word. So I'm nervous about changing 
> the default. All thoughts on that one are welcome!
>
> By the way, the best tool I know of for finding where to tweak this 
> stuff is the developer tools within Chrome. Once you've got the 
> developer tools showing, you can right-click in (for example) that 
> yellow box and choose "Inspect". It shows you all the CSS that applies 
> and which file it's in. At which point you can tweak numbers until you 
> find the one that changes what you want.
>
> Cheers,
> Jules.
>
>
> On 03/05/2017 21:29, LeBlang, Jarett wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any way to remove the excess yellow splash past the Login 
>> button? I looked in login.tpl but am not sure what to change. I have 
>> a longer logo and it’s overlapping and seems unneccesary. Using 
>> Google Chrome latest build.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jarett LeBlang
>>
>> IT Director
>>
>> Lac Du Flambeau Tribe
>>
>> jleblang at ldftribe.com <mailto:jleblang at ldftribe.com>
>>
>> 715-588-4310
>>
>>
>>
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> Jules
>
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Jules

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