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oxy8384
Jun-05-2007, 01:48 PM
I hate IE! [climbing down off soap box]

I have a mail form to get some info which I then pass off to a PHP script for processing. The form works just fine, but when I view it in IE6, the textarea appears for a moment and then vanishes as though it never existed (no missing space or anything).

NS7 and FF2 both work OK.

Did I miss something?

The HTML all seems to be in order....

http://truemomentsphotography.smugmug.com/gallery/2938050

FF WebDev extensions show no 'competing' textarea stylings.:dunno

TIA,

Bill
rainforest1155
Jun-05-2007, 03:45 PM
Maybe try another name for it than 'comments' as this is probably also used for the smugmug comments and it might be possible that IE mixes those 2 things up.

Also it's interesting to see that it only vanishes in Journal view, but not in single photo view (when you click on the photo).


Sebastian
oxy8384
Jun-05-2007, 04:30 PM
Maybe try another name for it than 'comments' as this is probably also used for the smugmug comments and it might be possible that IE mixes those 2 things up.

Also it's interesting to see that it only vanishes in Journal view, but not in single photo view (when you click on the photo).


Sebastian
Renaming the field fixed it! :bow:bow:bow:bow:bow
It also taught me how to fix another IE problem I had wherein IE was eating up a div I had named albumform. I guess good element names are good element names. And as I move code snippets from my personal site to SmugMug, I need to be very very careful...

Just for the record, I STILL hate IE...:D

Gratefully,

Bill
rainforest1155
Jun-05-2007, 05:02 PM
I guess good element names are good element names.
It's more like a race on who reserves the best element name first. The only trouble is whenever you've got a good name and smugmug decides to take that name for something else you're screwed again and may not know of it. :rofl

Well, that's the almighty IE realm of which we can never escape.
Just until last week I was mainly using a IE-based browser out of old habbit, because I was so used to it's neat functions, but I really got tired of the slow JavaScript processing and finally moved on to Opera. Opera has really useful out of the box functions and you can set your own keyboard shortcuts without hassle. :thumb
A few customization releated Opera functions are presented over here (http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=44665&highlight=opera)


Sebastian