Ho do I have a ribbon and a short quote in my signature without one being cropped?

[Galane]

I see sigs all over with the ribbon and a short quote and neither are cut off. See mine down there? How do I fix that?

[vexx32]

If you don't use the [noparse]

[/noparse] tags, it'll be small enough to fit. The quote block has a lot of spacing on it. Alternatively, you could try putting them in a table of some sort; have ribbons on the left and quote on the right... though that's a little bit more complicated fiddling about with bbcodes. Tables look a bit like this:

[noparse][table="class: grid, width: 500"]
[tr]
[td]td is a cell[/td][td]while tr is a row[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]so this[/td][td]looks like the below[/td]
[/tr]
[/table][/noparse]

[TABLE=class: grid, width: 500]

[TR]

[TD]td is a cell[/TD]

[TD]while tr is a row[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]so this[/TD]

[TD]looks like the below[/TD]

[/TR]

[/TABLE]

In your case, you might use something like this -- one row, two cells:

[noparse][TABLE="width: 750, align: center"]
[TR]
[TD][img=http://ribbons.cgagnier.ca/image.php?user_ribbon=1008][/TD]
[TD][quote]Short quote goes here.[/quote][/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE][/noparse]

Which would give something like this:

[TABLE=width: 750, align: center]

[TR]

[TD][/TD]

[TD]

Short quote goes here.

[/TD]

[/TR]

[/TABLE]

You can change the width, alignment, and even add a border as well. If you go into the advanced post editor (click the Go Advanced button near the bottom right of the Quick Reply box), you can customise tables as you see fit using the table buttons provided. (Note that according to the Community Rules, 750px is the maximum total width for a signature.)

Edited January 17, 2014 by vexx32

[Specialist290]

Moustachauve's Signature Generator also lets you specify a custom arrangement for your ribbons, so you can try lining them up horizontally instead of vertically and see if that works any better.

[Galane]

Thanks. Got it fixed.

[thereaverofdarkness]

I just arrange them vertically and let them splay out horizontally.

[Galane]

"Too many people these days ride on the shoulders of classics when writing what they call science fiction. They tell stories in which they have created nothing new, imagined no new possibilities; this is not science fiction, it is fantasy."

Yeah, but David Drake tells some pretty good rehashes of classic literature.