I decided to add some of my forum islands onto my site's main page. I copied the code from the external use page and put it in the main page and checked the "Always Use" box. The content shows on the front page, the content shows but the formatting like the test formatting and the wrapper is missing. The path to the CSS files is correct. Is the formatting and wrapper supposed to show as well or do I need to edit my code to add it? This is not a big deal but I ASSUMED that inserting an island directly from the forums would show up exactly like it does in the forums.

Somewhere here is a post on this. will have to try to find it.
memory says if using a wrapper then you need to add something.
Also some Islands will not work.
So what type of Island are you using.

LOL, Are you ready for this!
You asked the same question in 2008 and Rick responded.
HERE is the post

Ohhhhh no.

Thank you my friend. This shows me two things; one, I have too much going on that I don't finish with things by leaving them in open ends and two, I WAS going to use the search - so why didn't I?

I now know what I must do...

Don't fret.
I knew I read this before but it took a while to re-find it.
But to be honest the answer was not really clear to me.

Actually it makes perfect sense, well, to me it does. My wrapper is based on a design I made to wrap my menu in. I created the images for the top, sides and bottom and inserted them into a table that forms a box with the middle of the box intended for the conetent. It naturally fit into my UBB wrapper as luck would have it.

As per Ricks reply all I have to do is place the island code from the forum into the center of the table code and I have my islands wrapped. Unfortunately the content not being formatted properly destroys the look. THis is why I probably abandoned the problem last year... forgot about it and tried this again today... ended up with the same issue.

I would think an island would look the way it does in the forum when it is used externally on the same site. Perhaps my expectations exceed what is possible right now.

Thanx again.

I have found that even if you do not use a wrapper it still does not show like in the forum. No color, table lines, nothing. Pretty much the reason I personally do not have pages out side of my forum as those boxes will not appear as they do in the forum without tons of work.

I still would like to be able to have this work. Fortunately I was able to blend the look of my web site with my forums. I don't need to put any forum island content on my main web site, but it would be nice to if I could make look right.

When I redesigned my web site over a year ago I took a concept and applied it to the main site, then I adapted it to the forums which was pretty easy. I was also able to take elements from the site and create left side islands that duplicate the left side of the main site. That is an easy way to maintain a seamless look as long as you begin the process with that in mind.

One thing you need to do when using these externally is to copy a couple of your classes into your webpage stylesheet. You'll need to copy the tdheader and alt-1 class. So, basically you can open up your actual stylesheet.css file, find those 2 classes and then copy them into your website .css file.

Definitely need to make this easier, but that should make the island so it has the same look as if it was in your forum.

I have read that note in the control panel probably a dozen times and never paid much attention to it. Now I will.
But I am still not clear on how to insert a wrapper for external islands.
I guess I just need to see a real working code example.