css problem in firefox/ie

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jenr
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css problem in firefox/ie

Post by jenr »

I really like this blog - thanks! - and have installed it on several sites, but am having trouble w/new install on startlogic shared server.

http://lostbirdproject.com/serendipity/

Doesn't load stylesheet to FF/IE, but looks great in Safari.

v1.0.1 (other installs were v0.8.2) - the only difference I could see off the bat was charset changed - set this manually to old settings, but no-go.

Have also tried hard link to style.css - doesn't change a thing.

I modded the template style.css and index.tpl

Have tried a couple of things suggested in other threads but it still looks lousy.

Thanks in advance,
Jen
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Post by judebert »

Wow, looks great, except for the important part. :roll:

When I look at your page source, I see a lot of inline style. Where did it come from?

Is there any change when you turn on/off the XHTML compliance plugin?

I tried making changes in EditCSS, but nothing took. That's highly unusual, and usually indicates a CSS error. Do you have this problem with any other templates, or only this one?
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Post by jenr »

Thanks!

Inline style before content is residual from copy&paste of menu, and also patch since css isn't being read just to correct bgcolor.

Are you seeing any *after* content starts??

xhtml compliance doesn't seem to make a difference.

Hmmm - just changed templates and in Safari it kept the *old* template css and FF switched to new template's css. A clue?

I'll leave it like this for a while so you can diagnose.
Off to work now - whee!

Thanks,
Jen
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Post by judebert »

Yes, there were inline styles for outline or some such. I'll bet it was the scripts I was running. Disregard the earlier comment. :oops:

The new theme looks good in FF and IE on WinXP. Safari might be using a CSS cache that didn't get updated; you'll want to try clearing its cache and reloading (sometimes shift-reload or control-reload will do the job quickly).

Since switching to the default template fixes the problem, I can at least confirm that Serendipity and its plugins are functioning as expected. Something in the earlier template is either broken, or colliding with a plugin (although that's less common). My guess would be the style.css modifications broke something, but I'm just not good enough at CSS to spot it in that stylesheet.
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Found it. Der.

Post by jenr »

Thanks for your help, judebert -

It was a simple syntax error (missing "}" ) in my css mod. Apparently Safari didn't mind so much, but FF and IE were very confused.
Changing styles was a clear indication that I had broken it :(

Check out the improved version: http://lostbird.com/serendipity

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Post by judebert »

I assume that's http://lostbirdproject.com/serendipity -- and it looks great. I don't really go for dark themes, but the red-black-yellow in this one is quite striking.
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