As requested by the admin i help with their forums, they want flash buttons for the toplinks.. Well i did all that and it was fine and working in Firefox, seems with Internet Explorer 7 (at least) the welcome block css goes crazy lol, all the background colours disappear and the text and border becomes red, not attractive to say the least...
Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this issue?
can you post the url so we can see what it looks like or a screen shot
A similar IE bug happened to me. I once had the [UGLY] slate red theme, when I went to go look at my forum, my logo appeared on the thead_bg instead of the forum's BG and it looked extremely weird.
Can you post the html where your navigation links are in your header template?
<ul>
<li><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/search.php"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26" id="BMPF-falshfilename.swf">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/search.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
<EMBED src="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/search.swf" quality="high" bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26"
NAME="BMPF-logo6.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
WMODE="transparent"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT></li>
<li><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/memberlist.php"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26" id="BMPF-falshfilename.swf">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/memberlist.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
<EMBED src="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/memberlist.swf" quality="high" bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26"
NAME="BMPF-logo6.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
WMODE="transparent"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT></li>
<li><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/calendar.php"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26" id="BMPF-falshfilename.swf">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/calendar.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
<EMBED src="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/calendar.swf" quality="high" bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26"
NAME="BMPF-logo6.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
WMODE="transparent"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT></li>
<li><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/games.php"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26" id="BMPF-falshfilename.swf">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/games.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
<EMBED src="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/games.swf" quality="high" bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26"
NAME="BMPF-logo6.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
WMODE="transparent"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT></li>
<li><a href="{$mybb->settings['bburl']}/misc.php?action=help"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26" id="BMPF-falshfilename.swf">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/help.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE="high">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#000000>
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>
<EMBED src="http://www.esmodders.com/swf/help.swf" quality="high" bgcolor=#000000 WIDTH="123" HEIGHT="26"
NAME="BMPF-logo6.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
WMODE="transparent"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT></li>
</ul>
I have also tried without the ul and li... I tried javascript too... I had issues with flash cs3 which is why i've got the hyperlinks in html, bad i know but it was a quick fix to a headache
Update:
I've found that it's just the last one on the list... If i put all the others in and leave the last one as default (non flash) it looks fine but as soon as i put in the last one as flash it messes up the welcome block... Strange... Any ideas?
To be honest, I know its really bad programming habit, but I don't program websites for Internet Explorer, the only reason why it sucks so much at displaying things, is because it sticks to, and only to correct standards, which is very difficult to achieve, that said, if you can program a website to display correctly in IE you have done a bloody good job and should be proud...you programmed to the standards...
Now that said, IE7 is the best of them all...I'm on IE8 at the moment (Beta) and it COMPLETLY destroys my website...as in, NOTHING is where it should be...my navigation gets aligned on the botton...rather then the left...
Thus, I say I never program for IE, if it works..then GREAT, if not, mah.
I program for Opera which always works fine as I use Dreamweaver CS3, which uses the Presto Engine, which is Operas HTML engine, so everything that works in DW, works in Opera, I also program for Safari, (Again if it works in Opera, it works in Safari) and Firefox, and Netscape 9....Generally speaking, I've never had issues with programming for either of them...other then Javascripting in Firefox but I'm still new to Javascripting so that doesn't bother me.
As for ideas, Try Beta 8 of IE, but I doubt it will work...if not...Do a me..."If it works, great, if not...mah"
Sgt. D. Pilla Wrote:To be honest, I know its really bad programming habit, but I don't program websites for Internet Explorer, the only reason why it sucks so much at displaying things, is because it sticks to, and only to correct standards, which is very difficult to achieve, that said, if you can program a website to display correctly in IE you have done a bloody good job and should be proud...you programmed to the standards...
Now that said, IE7 is the best of them all...I'm on IE8 at the moment (Beta) and it COMPLETLY destroys my website...as in, NOTHING is where it should be...my navigation gets aligned on the botton...rather then the left...
Thus, I say I never program for IE, if it works..then GREAT, if not, mah.
I program for Opera which always works fine as I use Dreamweaver CS3, which uses the Presto Engine, which is Operas HTML engine, so everything that works in DW, works in Opera, I also program for Safari, (Again if it works in Opera, it works in Safari) and Firefox, and Netscape 9....Generally speaking, I've never had issues with programming for either of them...other then Javascripting in Firefox but I'm still new to Javascripting so that doesn't bother me.
As for ideas, Try Beta 8 of IE, but I doubt it will work...if not...Do a me..."If it works, great, if not...mah"
Actually Internet Explorer is notorious for
not following standards. If only it did, web developers would have more hair.
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RE: Flash Top Links
To be honest, I know its really bad programming habit, but I don't program websites for Internet Explorer, the only reason why it sucks so much at displaying things, is because it sticks to, and only to correct standards, which is very difficult to achieve, that said, if you can program a website to display correctly in IE you have done a bloody good job and should be proud...you programmed to the standards...
As Dennis said..no it's not. IE is extremely loose for compliance.