No, layout templates provided by the ABXD layout maker are NOT cool layouts. Most of them are unoriginal and badly designed. This is why there's no layout maker here, you guessed.

First of all, if you haven't already, you should read the post layout rules posted in the FAQ. They provide the essentials you'll need in order to try making a post layout without pissing off the staff.

Now, I will explain how post layouts work a bit more in detail. However, this takes a bit of skill. If you don't already have some basic CSS knowledge, go follow some tutorial and then come back

How to customize your post box

If you wish to customize your whole post box, and not just the part that holds the post, you can do it with some CSS tricks. Your post box is split in 5 parts, like this:

.tableX
(where X is your user ID)

.tableX is the table element that contains the post box, and the 4 other classes are the individual table cells.

So for example, if you're user ID 21, and wish to make your sidebar text red, you would use the following CSS:
This is pretty basic, but with a bit more work, you can do pretty cool things.


Oh and don't forget to enable 'Apply layout to whole post box' in your post layout options

Post layouts and newlines

Most Acmlmboards conserve all newlines in header/footer. This is what one would expect from a messageboard, but it is quite annoying when making a post layout, because you have to compress your layout code into an unreadable blob to not get unwanted newlines.


ABXD tries to find a compromise between the two parties: newlines in headers/footers are conserved unless they come right after an opening or closing tag of certain elements (div, p, style, link, table and everything that goes in it).

This makes making a post layout a lot easier, without getting in the way of non-Acmlmboard users. It also makes writing HTML easier as the output looks more like one would expect from an Acmlmboard.

See this post for more details.

Post layout FAQ

I applied CSS to my post box but it doesn't work

Make sure you added !important at the end of each CSS rule you specified, like shown before.

My header/footer has lots of empty space

Make sure to remove any unwanted newline in your post header and footer (outside of <style> tags).

Where do I store my layout's files?

Images and CSS can be stored on our uploader. If you have a web/file/image host, you can also host your files there, but you'd better ensure that your host is reliable. If it turns out to be down too often, your layout will be removed.

But unless your layout is dynamic, we really recommend that you store the files on the uploader. It'll give better loading times.

I made a layout with another board's layout maker. How do I import it here?

I'll not provide help with that. Most layouts made with layout makers are unoriginal and badly designed. If you're competent enough to make a good layout with that layout maker, you don't need to ask this question anyway.

I don't like User X's layout. What should I do?

Go to their profile and click 'Block layout'. That user's posts will look like he has no layout to you.

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The post parser has been updated as to not add extra newlines in layouts and such, and generally try to handle newlines like one would expect.

This means that in most cases you won't need to make your layout code a huge blob anymore for it to work without adding unwanted spaces below and above your posts.

For example, the following code:
will produce the following output:


As opposed to what it'd have looked like before:



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NSMBHD - Kafuka - Jul
melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

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... what?

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NSMBHD - Kafuka - Jul
melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

zafkflzdasd