VB transparent box over thread


I see when i put my cursor over your subject/title of your threads in many forums a transparent summary box comes up with the first few sentences (or is it the first few paragraphs?) of the thread/post.

I have vb 3.0.3 installed for my group, but this action isn't happening.

It's only happening over the last posted thread in a forum, not on all the threads as here in this vbulletin community.

How did you get that to happen... is it some php coding, or is it done/activated from the cpanel, a hack or what? and how do i do it for my site if i have no computer or programming or php knowledge or skills?

Thanks. jos

PS. also i see that some pages here have a box at the bottom titled similar threads... how does one get that? It's a cool and very user friendly feature which enhances the viewers knowlege and ease of navigation and desire to stay in the site. whoever thought of that was right on!! http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/techtalk-images/smilies/fiyellow/icon_cool.gif

Could you please make a screenshot of that box? I think it is a browser feature to make it transparant.

vBulletin Options ==> Forum Display Options (forumdisplay) ==> Length of Thread Preview Text

Hi guys and gals,

Actually it wasn't either of the above... but thanks anyway for your response and trying to help.

Since this was a new upgrade just made that day (from version 2.29 to 3.0.3) it wasn't working (or rather seemed it wasn't working)...in fact, for new posts since the upgrade it was working.... but for all the older posts made under the older version of vb that I was running, it wasn't showing up.

The answer was to reset the counters in the cpanel option under

Import and maintenace > update counters > Rebuild Thread Information

Once I did that, now for every thread or post in the commuity, when I put the cursor over it before opening it I get the first 300 characters of the post as should be. (I set it to show the first 300 characters but of course you can set it to any nr you want at the general settings option at your cpanel)

So, I thought to write here the solution for newbie's who might be upgrading to vb 3.0+ from older versions and aren't seeing/previewing.

Hope this helps someone.

Have fun today.
Thanks again.

Jos