Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

sbatson

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#1 02-12-2007, 10:23 PM

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Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

Ok, this is strange. I have setup the Generic Blue Skin from MPDesignZ Skins - Custom Designs on my forum. It installed and configured ok, seemed to be working fine. Then I noticed something....It looks fine on my Intel Based iMac using Safari and Firefox. On the PC using Explorer, it looks like the middle and right graphics look like they could be reversed, but I never messed with them.

Here's screenshots showing what I mean.

This is the Screwed up one on the PC using IE

This is from the Mac, it looks fine like this with either Safari or Firefox.

It also behaves like this on IE on both XP and Vista. But I just installed Firefox on Vista and it looks fine. So, it's got to be something with IE. Either way, not an acceptable behavior which leads me to believe that something isn't quite right with the skin's code.

Suggestions?

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Last edited by sbatson; 02-12-2007 at 10:35 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

eric

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#2 02-13-2007, 12:43 AM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

I think it is the float element that isn't rendered ok by IE...

had the same once, never got it fixed but just added : don't use IE to look at this, use a good browser ;)

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#3 02-13-2007, 03:55 AM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

You need to give us the link so we can check from the code. Otherwise it is impossible to talk or comment.

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#4 02-13-2007, 07:38 AM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

Quote:

Originally Posted by eric

I think it is the float element that isn't rendered ok by IE...

had the same once, never got it fixed but just added : don't use IE to look at this, use a good browser ;)

Sure that's funny and I can't disagree about IE, but the fact is that much of the world does use it and I always try to make sure my websites look good in all the popular browsers including IE. I use Safari most of the time and sometimes Firefox.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lizard King

You need to give us the link so we can check from the code. Otherwise it is impossible to talk or comment.

Oops...good point.

Here's the link: http://www.businessdevelopmentonline.com/forums

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Last edited by sbatson; 02-13-2007 at 07:40 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

Lizard King

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#5 02-14-2007, 12:35 AM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

in header find

Code:

<table width="100%" height="100" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
	<tr style="background: url(/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_02.gif);">
		<td width="254" align="left">
			<img src="/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_01.gif" width="252" height="100" alt=""></td>
		<td width="45" align="right">
			<img src="/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_04.gif" width="45" height="100" alt=""></td>
	</tr>
</table>

replace with

Code:

<table width="100%" height="100" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center">
	<tr>
		<td width="254" align="left">
			<img src="/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_01.gif" width="252" height="100" alt="Business Development Online" />
		</td>
		<td width="100%" style="background: url(/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_02.gif);"><img src="/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_02.gif" width="100%" height="100" alt="" border="0" />
		</td>
		<td width="45" align="right">
			<img src="/forums/images/styles/generic_bluev1.0/misc/gb_header_04.gif" width="45" height="100" alt="" />
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>

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Last edited by Lizard King; 02-15-2007 at 05:37 PM.

sbatson

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#6 02-14-2007, 11:01 PM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

Getting Closer....it still looks great in Safari and Firefox. The graphics are in the proper place in IE now, but there is some space and a blue line between the header graphics and the rest of the page.

I've looked and looked at the header HTML and I can't see anything that looks wrong.

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Lizard King

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#7 02-15-2007, 09:10 AM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

Quote:

Originally Posted by sbatson

I updated the code

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

Thanks for helping out Lizard King

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sbatson

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#9 02-15-2007, 12:21 PM

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Re: Strange Behavior with Generic Blue Skin...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lizard King

I updated the code

No change to the graphic, but that added an error:

$spacer_open $_phpinclude_output

I'm guessing something isn't closed or terminated properly, but I didn't see anything that stood out.

Thanks for everyone that offered help on this. I finally pulled the code into FrontPage and I was able to cleanup some extra spaces that didn't seem to be showing up as HTML. Once I did that, it started working fine.

I also had to make some minor adjustments to the footer since the template for that had some problems with centering text.

Anyway, thanks again! I'm actually kind of glad I had to go through this, I wouldn't have found this great forum otherwise.

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Last edited by sbatson; 02-15-2007 at 11:15 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost