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JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2010

austega OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 69 Karma: 1	Hi all, on big-issues.org and trumps.net.au I use JA-Purity with Suckersfish horizontal menus. I note that in IE the width of the menu bar is wider than in FF and doesn't look as good. Same thing seems to apply to this site www.joomladay.org.au/. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on why this is so - and what can be done? David
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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2011

JustLoveJoomla OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 219 Karma: 10	Hi Davd it looks like eth probelm is in IE8 only and is a compatibility problem. To tell IE8 to run like IE7 when viewing this site - you need to edit the index.php (or "html" ) of the template : under <head> add this line <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> Back up first and let us know how you go
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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2013

buipy001 OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 250 Karma: 12	I "THINK" there may be some updates what get packed in the latest version of Joomla that have the fixes for the template. don't quote me on that, but I have been using purity for wire framing lately and appears to be working fine on IE8. But I much prefer Audra's answer as a fix Peter
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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2014

JustLoveJoomla OFFLINE Gold Boarder Posts: 219 Karma: 10	Hmm that's good to know for new sites. I'd do anything to avoid an upgrade or patch (coward!) Thanks
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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2015

dex OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 779 Karma: 12	doesnt surprise me that ja_purity doesnt work well on IE8, because it's a very old template - coded prior to the release of IE8. Maybe there is an updated version of the template itself somewhere (e.g. in latest J release)
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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2018

austega
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Thanks all.

Audra's fix did the trick, after a few refreshes to clear the cache.

I seem to have picked up an IE8 status bar Error on Site in big-issues.org, but this may be unrelated to the fix as it did not appear on trumps.net.au even with the same index.php file. The details show

Access is denied
big-issues.org Line:1080
Code: 0 Char: 4
URI: big-issues.org/

I am unsure how to find what the Line no refers to...

Nothing reported in FF or in my use of Firebug (which may be incomplete).

I am using J1.5.14. Peter, were you referring to a version still in development?

Cheers - David

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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2023

buipy001
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Hey David,

Looks like the error might be in the Google Search Trends module.

Disable it and see if the error still appears. If it goes away then check the embedding the code for that module.

It looks like the javascript there is trying to modify the scroll highed of the "blockrandom" which appears just below it.

I can't tell for sure but it looks like you may have to embed the JS in to the head of the template or in to a separate JS file.

You should need that JS to load the Google Trends widget.

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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2024

austega OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 69 Karma: 1	Thanks a lot, Peter. Yes disabled Google Search Trends and after a decaching pause, error message disappeared. I would love to know how you found it in order to assist my learning curve. I had no idea where to start. I thought Firebug would have identified it but I am still learning about it so I might have missed something. Thanks again - David
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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2026

buipy001
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*scratching head*

ok, let me think.
I first looked at the error in IE8. Looked at where the code was that was causing the error in the source code of the page.

Saw that it was Javascript and started looking at what the script was trying to do.

Deciphered that it was trying to manipulate the Google Trends iframe but wasn't working correctly. The iFrame onload call to the function wasn't right.

So to make sure that it was the JS and iframe causing the error, I'd disable the module, which is what you did to confirm the error.

To fix it and get it working, I'd re implement the Google Trends code without the custom JS.

Then work on some better code to us or not use it at all.

So thats my brain.....

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Re:JA_Purity Suckerfish Horizontal Menu IE oddity 2 years, 8 months ago #2029

austega OFFLINE Senior Boarder Posts: 69 Karma: 1	Thanks, Peter, that helped. So the obvious in hind sight thing that I blithely missed was that the big-issues.org Line:1080 had to refer to the generated code of the page as sent to the browser rather than any of the pages/components I edit or author in Joomla backend. Learning curve climbed a touch. <g>
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