It seems I am simply incapable of solving the following two obstacles on my way towards the new design of my pages:
1. How do I create a simple frame around my images with CSS? I know how to make a line with no padding, just around the image, but I want to have a 2-10 px space between the image and the line. I think I have experimented on that issue quite a lot, but still, it doesn’t work! When I used ‚padding 5px‘, the outcome was a 5px space top and bottom, but left and right were drawn at the page’s margins. Please help me on that – it drives me mad!
2. Why is the display of my commenting-popup totally crippled upon load? As you move your mouse over the non-visible text and highlight it, it becomes visible afterwards. I really don’t get this, especially since it is a standard-template and almost nobody else seems to have this problem. It is even hard to repeat, since the fault occurs on certain machines only. The MT-forum didn’t provide any help on that either.
The last issue relates to a malfunction in MT itself:
3. MT doesn’t send me a notification when a new comment is posted. I entered the correct email-adress in the correct field, and it worked once, but only once and never ever since. What the heck am I doing wrong???
6 Kommentare zu “Three problems!”
Wenn ich dein Englisch richtig verstehe, willst du ein Bild in Text einbinden und drumherum etwas Platz lassen?
siehe http://thinkdrastic.de/archives/000376.php
Lustigerweise werden Tag gel?scht… musst dir mein Kommentar in MT anschaun um alles sehen zu k?nnen.
Where are you trying to put the pictures? In your entries, or along the sides? You are right that you need to use the padding command to have space between the picture and the line. Does your CSS validate? It’s easier to spot the errors if you work on validating it. If there are errors elsewhere, it might be what’s causing the padding to act funny.
As for the popup comments, that actually IS a common problem that happened to me and I’ve read about. It’s an Internet Explorer Bug involving the redrawing of the page. The only way I fixed it was by totally changing how that box looked. There are MANY threads on the MT Forum, they are just tricky to find.
Here is one thread to get you going:
http://www.movabletype.org/support/index.php?act=ST&f=10&t=28581&hl=comments,and,text&s=90041d1229b71018c4a339c9228a426b
As for your last problem..In the MT configuration, do you have email notification box checked? Have you edited any configuration files?
ICQ me or something if you need any more clarification or help. I hope this helps somewhat!
Jennifer,
thanks for your tips – I think I came a little closer to the source of the problem. Here’re my findings after going through the forum and your code:
1. My stylesheet DOES validate, so this can’t be the reason. I think it is just the incapability of IE to process floating styles, so I will adapt my CSS to that.
2. stupid, stupid: I tried to make the frame with a simple class-attribute, not by just defining a behavior for img-elements. Now, this was quite an eye-opener with AHA!-effect.
3. Yes, I have entered the adress and notification is active as well. But, I installed another, fresh MT for my upcoming photoblog, and there it works. Consequently, I will simply have to go over the mt-config again and find the differing entry.
Again: Thank you very much!
Yea it does process floating attributes oddly. For instance, the blue column on the right is a floating element. It lines up on IE, but not on Netscape. If I were to make the margin the same as the boxes on the left, it WOULD align in Netscape, but not in IE. Netscape is processing it correctly, and IE is not. But, since more people use IE, I decided to make it look fine in IE and slightly off in Netscape. Yeah you just have to design the popup to something that will work correctly. Hopefully it’s a bug that will be fixed in the next release–it’s really frustrating when your code is correct but it doesn’t display properly!
And well, you CAN use a class attribute for the images. For instance, if you don’t want ALL img tags to have the padding and border, you can do what I did for the img.photofriday. Although, since you looked at my code, that’s probably what you did. You didn’t say, but I hope that worked for you.
And that is so weird about the non-notification–especially if you don’t think you changed anything. That might be a question better posted in the MT forums, since there are very knowledgeable people in there. I think combined, everyone in there has experienced anything that can go wrong.
Hope you get it all working the way you’d like!
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