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Topic: IE8 Issue - Unable to get menu to work in forum

Posted By: mconway72
Subject: IE8 Issue - Unable to get menu to work in forum
Date Posted: 27 October 2009 at 11:03pm

The same code works for my site .... as you see the menu displays properly:

http://www.mmapower.com/default.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.mmapower.com/default.asp

Yet, when you go into the forum, the menu does not display properly:

http://www.mmapower.com/forum/default.asp" rel="nofollow - http://www.mmapower.com/forum/default.asp

What do I need to do with the menu.asp in the forum to get this to display properly?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 October 2009 at 9:49am

It appears to work correctly in all browsers except IE (no surprise there).

IE has and probably always will be littered with bugs. Unfortunately such issues like this leave you pulling your hair out for hours iof not days trying various work arounds and fixes to make it work in IE.

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Posted By: 123Simples
Date Posted: 28 October 2009 at 11:53am

I think this is because you have incorrectly adjusted your includes/header.asp file. I think what you should try doing, is create a separate includes folder outside the forum directory, then create your header file there, and put your includes/header.asp back to something like this:

<!--#include virtual="includes/header_inc.asp"-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript" />
<script language="javascript" src="includes/default_javascript_v9.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<table class="basicTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" align="center">
 <tr> 
  <td><% 
   
'If there is a forum image then dsiplay it
If NOT strTitleImage = "" Then Response.Write("<a href=""" & strWebsiteURL & """><img src=""" & strTitleImage & """ border=""0"" alt=""" & strWebsiteName & " " & strTxtHomepage & """ title=""" & strWebsiteName & " " & strTxtHomepage & """ /></a>")

%></td>
 </tr>
</table>

The bit in red references the external includes file, which providing that works correctly, will or should give you something like what you need. You can http://www.justcheck.co.uk/forum/default.asp" rel="nofollow - see something similar here which references the header file externally outside the forum directory
MrTWS

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 28 October 2009 at 12:38pm

That wouldnt help, TWS.

The problem is client-side, not server side.

I suspect the issue is a conflict between your websites CSS and the forums CSS.

Have a scan through both CSS files to look for issues or try to strip out CSS from the forum that your website is handling.

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Posted By: Nick-V
Date Posted: 25 February 2010 at 11:27pm

If menus stop working in version 9.65 it is probably because your custom header.asp file still contains a reference to the older file "includes/default_javascript.js" and this should be edited to refer to "includes/default_javascript_v9.js".

Note that in version 9.65 the file "includes/default_javascript.js" is missing where it is still present in version 9.64.

The file "includes/default_javascript_v9.js" exists in both versions.

I don't believe the change to header.asp or javascript_v9 was mentioned in "version history.txt".

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 February 2010 at 10:25am

The file default_javascript.js was renamed to default_javascript_v9.js around 2 years ago shortly after version 9 was released. This was due to IE caching the javascript file and so those upgrading from version 8 were finding that there IE users were not having features working correctly.

There was for a while some versions released that contained a file called default_javascript_v9.js and the old name for the file default_javascript.js due to an error where a old file with the old file name got mixed up and was contained in the zip file.

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