"Earth" theme malfunctioning?

[cambler]

I use the "Earth" theme as my default. As of about 30 minutes ago, something's changed - there is a bar added to the top of the page that covers up my header.

It seems to only show up in IE (Firefox does not seem to have the problem).

I suspect someone just made a change to the CSS, perhaps?

(My site is http://www.cheerphoto.com - smugmug account "cheerphoto")

[Mike Lane]

I use the "Earth" theme as my default. As of about 30 minutes ago, something's changed - there is a bar added to the top of the page that covers up my header.

It seems to only show up in IE (Firefox does not seem to have the problem).

I suspect someone just made a change to the CSS, perhaps?

(My site is http://www.cheerphoto.com - smugmug account "cheerphoto")

If you don't like that header bar use this:

#extraDiv1 {display:none;}

[cambler]

If you don't like that header bar use this:

#extraDiv1 {display:none;}
So I put that in, and yes, now it's gone - but it's not a don't-like-it-issue. It's something that wasn't there an hour ago, and is there now, and it's being drawn on top of my text. It's clearly a bad piece of CSS code, I should think.

And I spoke too soon, as it happens in Firefox as well.

[Mike Lane]

It's not a don't-like-it-issue. It's something that wasn't there an hour ago, and is there now, and it's being drawn on top of my text. It's clearly a bad piece of CSS code, I should think.

And I spoke too soon, as it happens in Firefox as well.

Nope, it's doing exactly what it was designed to do (I should know, I designed that theme). The idea is that the smugmug header would go in a box that is on top of the dark brown box and the bar on top has always been there.

You can hide it, bring your text in front of it, or make it so your text will go below it. I showed you how to hide it, let me know if you want to do one of the other options.

[cambler]

Then I'm missing something, because the header was never rendered on top of my text before, and now it is.

Rather than get rid of it, I viewed the source of the CSS, found the path to the png in question, and am using it as the background image of my header table instead of letting the CSS render it (using your get-rid-of-it override).

[Mike Lane]

If that's how you'd like it then :thumb

[cambler]

If that's how you'd like it then :thumb

It works, though I'm keen to know of a better solution if mine isn't a good way to accomplish it.

But I'm still interested in figuring out why the graphic started drawing over my header text for no apparent reason. I've just been creating galleries and uploading pictures tonight - no futzing in the customization at all.

So what I did just now is copy the CSS from your CSS file and put it, whole, into my customization CSS and then set my site back to "default." This way, I can hack on your code and get my CSS skills a little more solid (I know just enough to be dangerous, but not quite enough to be artistic).

Now any breaks can be proven to be my fault :-)

Thanks for the theme support (and take it as a :thumb that I like the "Earth" theme very much)

[Mike Lane]

It works, though I'm keen to know of a better solution if mine isn't a good way to accomplish it.

I don't like it because it uses tables and old school html to accomplish what you could do with a great deal less xhtml and CSS. We can discuss it further if you'd like...

But I'm still interested in figuring out why the graphic started drawing over my header text for no apparent reason. I've just been creating galleries and uploading pictures tonight - no futzing in the customization at all.

Smugmug was updating things tonight. Perhaps some of those updates caught up with you? I really can't say. That bar is definitely supposed to be there and if you haven't set the z-index of layers that intersect with it, those layers will fall below that bar.

So what I did just now is copy the CSS from your CSS file and put it, whole, into my customization CSS and then set my site back to "default."

I saw that.

This way, I can hack on your code and get my CSS skills a little more solid (I know just enough to be dangerous, but not quite enough to be artistic).

It's not very well documented so if you have any problems let me know.

Now any breaks can be proven to be my fault :-)

Thanks for the theme support (and take it as a :thumb that I like the "Earth" theme very much)

I'd make sure to do backups if I were you just in case. Thanks a bunch!