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    • Display problem with MilkyWay theme viewed in IE - SOLVED

    Posted by larryg

    Trying to use the milkyway theme on a tw v5.03 website. The pages look fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer there is a problem with the right-hand border of some pages (not all). Has anyone encountered this problem?

    You can see the fractured border here:
    http://n1mmtw5x.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php

    Thanks in advance,

    -larryg

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee Japan

    I just did a quick check, and adding "width: 100%" to td#centercolumn in the stylesheet seems to fix it (I only checked a few pages). You could add this in milkyway.css and hope it doesn't adversely affect other browsers, or add it in milkyway's ie6.css, ie7.css and ie8.css files. I'll look at this more closely later, but wanted to make a quick reply in case it does the job.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by larryg

    Gary,

    Thanks for the quick reply. Your suggestion did not fix my problem but pointed me in the right direction. I modified that line in milkyway.css with "width: 100%" and the width of the broken right-border shortened to about half its original size, but did not go away completely.

    After lots of experimentation, I added a similar entry to the /css/IE8.CSS file:

    td#centercolumn {width: 2456px}

    Which solved the problem for IE8 browsers.

    During my experiments I also discovered that the styles/milkyway/options/blue/footer.jpg graphic is mis-drawn. When selecting a blue theme, the footer on a blue page is strange looking; all other colors display properly. Comparing the footer files between blue and any other color reveals the flaw in that jpg footer.

    How could/should I proceed with correcting files from a theme? Not sure of the correct steps.

    -larryg

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee Japan

    Hmm, specifying a center column width something like twice the width of the whole page fixes it for IE? Interesting. About the blue footer, I noticed it at your site but thought it was something to do with that installation until your comment, when I checked my own and saw the same thing. Funny that neither I nor anyone else using the theme saw this problem earlier.

    Actually the css/ie8.css is for global application; for Milky Way only, styles/milkyway/ie8.css is better.

    If you mean correcting the files in the theme package, I can get the image file your site is using (in my browser cache already ;-) ), if that's ok with you, and then commit it and the ie css file to the Subversion repository.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by larryg

    Thanks, Gary. Yes, you are welcome to use the corrected footer graphic from my site.

    Thanks also for the advice on correct placement of an IE8.CSS file. There is no IE8.CSS in the milkway_5 distro... so I put my changes in the only one I could find. I'll create one and put my changes there.

    The weird centercolum width (2456) was derived by stretching the milkyway theme across two wide monitors, and noticing where the other graphics for that theme ended. I made the centercolumn the exact same width as the end-point of the rest of the page.

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    Posted by larryg

    Gary,

    uh oh - just got bit be a milkyway bug I failed to test prior to deployment...

    Do you use the "Full Page" feature on your website? It worked fine on my previous theme (Coelesce) but I had to disable it on my new production website.

    You can see the problem on my dev website at:

    http://n1mmtw5x.hamdocs.com/tiki-index.php?fullscreen=y

    Any thoughts on this one?

    -larryg

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee Japan

    Sorry, I didn't notice your post until just now. I uploaded a new footer background image for Milky Way's Blue option, thanks to your noticing the problem. (I'll commit the IE fix soon.)

    About the fullscreen background color, I don't get that problem at my local Tiki 5 test site or at zukakakina.com, which is also running 5.3. I notice a difference in the body tags in the sites. Yours looks like

    body class="tiki tiki_wiki_pagefullscreen"

    and mine look like

    body class="tiki tiki_wiki_page fixed_width fullscreen"

    which shows that the fullscreen class (which provides a white background) isn't being used at your site. I don't know offhand how the body html tag's is missing the space between class names, but as you can see there are other differences. Is it possible your installation isn't fully updated (if it was upgraded from an earlier version?

    -- Gary

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