Increase size of left toolbar

[confused]

How would I increase the size of the left toolbar? Some of the page names don't fit on the buttons. I'm running MindTouch Core v.9.02.2 and running it on Red Hat 5.3. Thanks.

[Howleyda]

If you want to widen the left nav there are two things you need to do.

1. Change LocalSettings.php to truncate less characters
2. Modify the CSS to make sure the Nav displays correctly

Crack open localSettings.php which can be found at \drive\var\www\dekiwiki. Add the following line:

$wgNavPaneWidth = 50000;

Now go to your custom CSS and add the following:

#siteNavTree div.node a span {
display:block;
line-height:17px;
}

You may also have some issues with background images depending on which skin you're using. If this is the case you can consider removing the background images completing or modifying the background images to either repeat or stretch.

[confused]

Thanks, this worked to an extent.

Increasing the $wgNavPaneWidth from the default 1600 to 1700 did increase the width of the text inside the navigation pane, but any larger than that caused entire words to be completely truncated. This is why I imagine you included the:

#siteNavTree div.node a span {
display:block;
line-height:17px;
}

This didn't seem to do anything. I'm using the ace neutral skin and I placed it in the custom css in the control panel, saved it, and it didn't seem to do anything at all.

Any suggestions for increasing the size some more without truncating words completely?

[Howleyda]

My fault, I assumed you were using Fiesta. I'll have to do some tests to figure out the CSS for Ace.

[Howleyda]

Try this for a more in depth approach:

http://developer.mindtouch.com/index...v_pane_wrap%3F

It covers both Ace and Fiesta