IE ^ problem

[DJ Iron Mike]

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What was done before the problem appeared?
I was talking to gffb and we ran into a problem with IE 6 not displaying the buttons


What was done to try to solve the problem?
re-install



Description and Message

I was talking to gffb and this problem wiht IE 6 not displaying the buttons appeared we tried everything we could think of to solve it but it persisted. We tried Firefox and didn't have thos problems, but not everyone uses Firefox

[IntegraMOD]

This was on a new IM1.40 install updated to 2.0.21 and 1.03 security with the theme chronicals, I think it needs updating somehow but not sure where?

[Frost]

Which buttons? If you are using a new theme the theme might be missing some images, or your ftp client may have not uploaded all the files (they tend to do that alot)

Either way you should tell what buttons exactly and/or a screenshot

Could also be a cache problem or I heard about a IE png problem, but that's just for transparency...

Anyways... screenshot or link <img>

[DJ Iron Mike]

They are all there, they pull right through in Firefox and have no issues. Most people use IE6 as their browser though and I am hoping to get working soon. In lieu of that what I did is made a board wide announcement stating this problem, provided a link to download Firefox there and said that the problem is being worked on. It's just me and gffb that are signed up for the board at the moment, so there is no membership to appease but when the people do start coming, I want them to be aware of it. other than that, everything is looking good . I have not tried this site in Netscape, IE 7 yet (do I really dare?) I've never seen anything like this problem before and something strange is definately going on here. Since Helter Skelter ported the theme, I'm hoping he might have some words of wisdom for me that could fix the problem. (I bet he ported it in Firefox) The theme is "Chronicles"

[Frost]

Ok then, wait for HelterSkelter to help. <img>

[DJ Iron Mike]

I have just heard that in IE 7 this same problem persists

[Whisky]

IE stinks <img>

Webmasters'life would be a dream if this browser never been created

[DJ Iron Mike]

I'm not going to argue with you there, but unfortunately, that's the one most people are using and it needs to somehow work with it or at least my board isn't going to be accessable. In Firefox it's really nice.

[Whisky]

I know, I'm having the same compatibility problems and that's a pity because it's always workin fine on all browsers but IE <img>

[DJ Iron Mike]

the only other worse one is the browser AOL uses.
and all of that's starting to change now

[IntegraMOD]

Just to clarify the problem.

Installation is IM 1.40 fully updated to 2.0.21 (not 2.0.22yet)

Themes installed
Default
Chronicles
Acidtech

Extra Mods
None

The theme with the error is Chronicles ad the erroris as follows in IE....

There is none of the following buttons.
New Topic
New Post
Reply
Profile buttons at the bottom of members posts are also missing
Also I think the q-bar buttons are not functioning or showing correctly

Thishappens wen youareeither logged in or not it makes no difference.

[Frost]

The only way this would be a problem is if the creator of the theme used script that was not compatible with IE, all you have to do is look up the code for each image (you can click + drag to highlight the area, then right click and selelt "View Selection Source") and it "might" let you see if there is a problem.

If not you just need to look in the files for where the image was included and examine the code.

Or like stated previously, give a link to where the theme is in use.

I remember having this problem and reporting it when I was beta testing an im 141 install...........
It wasn't too hard to fix

[Helter]

the problem is that some of the images do not have sizes specified in the cronicles.cfg

there was a change in IE that caused this problem in alot of themes. Most have been fixed. It is an easy fix if you compare it to fisubice.cfg. If you have the newer fisubice then open it and do a find/replace
find /{$row['body_background']}/
replace with /


now you have a cfg file you can use for comparison.

example for the "folder" image

$images['folder'] = "$current_template_images/folder.gif" width="$folder_iw" height="$folder_ih" class="imgfolder";

the folder_iw and folder_ih, coraspond to the code at the top of the file

$topic_iw = '59';
$topic_ih = '18';
$post_iw = '82';
$post_ih = '25';
$icon_iw = '16';
$icon_ih = '18';
$folder_iw = '25';
$folder_ih = '25';
$folderbig_iw = '25';
$folderbig_ih = '25';

where the size of folder.gif is 25 px wide x 25 px high

[IntegraMOD]

the problem is that some of the images do not have sizes specified in the cronicles.cfg

there was a change in IE that caused this problem in alot of themes. Most have been fixed. It is an easy fix if you compare it to fisubice.cfg. If you have the newer fisubice then open it and do a find/replace
find /{$row['body_background']}/
replace with /


now you have a cfg file you can use for comparison.

example for the "folder" image

$images['folder'] = "$current_template_images/folder.gif" width="$folder_iw" height="$folder_ih" class="imgfolder";

the folder_iw and folder_ih, coraspond to the code at the top of the file

$topic_iw = '59';
$topic_ih = '18';
$post_iw = '82';
$post_ih = '25';
$icon_iw = '16';
$icon_ih = '18';
$folder_iw = '25';
$folder_ih = '25';
$folderbig_iw = '25';
$folderbig_ih = '25';

where the size of folder.gif is 25 px wide x 25 px high

Thanks Helter that solved the main issue.

I more question though, in viewforumbody.tpl this line

Code: Select all

<td> <a>{L_INDEX}</a> {NAV_CAT_DESC}</a></td>

produces two links on one line, the problem is the first link is a different colour than the second link, I have looked at the css code to try and see if there is anything there that I could find to change, I found this
[code]/* Used for the navigation text, (Page 1,2,3 etc) and the navigation bar when in a forum */.nav             { font-weight]
This shows the correct html code for the colour that should be shown but the actual link colour is not showing.

Any advice on where else to look would really help.