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oh believe me, I do. If I hadn't, that site would have had a lot more issues w/out javascript than it does, but thanks all the same. :)
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When you get a second, can someone please tab that markup? 8O

That reminds me of my first HTML from 1998 :oops:
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Everah wrote:When you get a second, can someone please tab that markup? 8O

That reminds me of my first HTML from 1998 :oops:
Or, better yet, remove all newlines and make it all into one big line of HTML. That'll teach Everah to criticize your tabbing!

:lol: :wink:
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It is actually spaced out very neatly, but unfortunately the ecommerce platform does what it pleases with whitespace. It's very annoying. :evil:
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superdezign wrote:
Everah wrote:When you get a second, can someone please tab that markup? 8O

That reminds me of my first HTML from 1998 :oops:
Or, better yet, remove all newlines and make it all into one big line of HTML. That'll teach Everah to criticize your tabbing!

:lol: :wink:
I'd go for this, as long as there were 35,000 lines of whitespace first, then the one line of HTML. Now that would be top class.

@ninja, I feel you. I have seen other apps do that with the output. It is more than a little annoying when viewing source to make sure everything renders right and having to tab out what got chopped to crap by the parsing. Oh well, what can you do...
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Everah wrote:
superdezign wrote:
Everah wrote:When you get a second, can someone please tab that markup? 8O

That reminds me of my first HTML from 1998 :oops:
Or, better yet, remove all newlines and make it all into one big line of HTML. That'll teach Everah to criticize your tabbing!

:lol: :wink:
I'd go for this, as long as there were 35,000 lines of whitespace first, then the one line of HTML. Now that would be top class.
Hehe. Now your thinking. :lol:
Everah wrote:@ninja, I feel you. I have seen other apps do that with the output. It is more than a little annoying when viewing source to make sure everything renders right and having to tab out what got chopped to crap by the parsing. Oh well, what can you do...
Only view source through Firebug or some other Firefox "View Source" add-on. ^_^
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OK, I've got a problem. In IE7, for some reason, when you click on the search box in the gray bar (on every page) for some reason it doesn't get the text box focus. It will give it focus if you click its label, but nobody will know to do that. :( Can anybody tell me why this is happening?
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Does the email box at the bottom of the page work as expected?

PS In IE6, the text box gets focus but doesn't change style. Also, in IE6, clicking the label does NOT bring focus to the field.
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Everah wrote:Does the email box at the bottom of the page work as expected?
No, it's a work in progress. I just put something up there for now that accepts anything until I get the time to learn how to write a proper mailing list module for miva merchant (mivascript is a ridiculous language)
Everah wrote:PS In IE6, the text box gets focus but doesn't change style. Also, in IE6, clicking the label does NOT bring focus to the field.
That's because IE6 doesn't support those features. It's a steaming pile of poopie. Image
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Well then...

It's time for breakfast.
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Anybody know what is causing this?
OK, I've got a problem. In IE7, for some reason, when you click on the search box in the gray bar (on every page) for some reason it doesn't get the text box focus. It will give it focus if you click its label, but nobody will know to do that. Sad Can anybody tell me why this is happening?
EDIT: It only happens if there is no text in the box, so for a temporary fix, we've put default text in there. To see what I'm talking about, just clear the text, remove focus, and then try clicking it again... it won't give the textbox focus. This browser is just as big of a pile as IE6 was. It's such a shame. :(
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Basically every form element in IE is flawed. And to think, their's is the least "styled" of all browsers.


Try playing around with relative positioning. I remember once I had the same problem with a submit button in IE7, and just moved it up to where the button was reacting to, and it worked fine. It was, obviously, part of an IE conditional.
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