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1. indigotwilight
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've come across a few problems with Wordpress 2.2 and Internet Explorer. First off: When I write a new post the text appears the same colour as the background when I go to view site. The text will appear when I highlight afterwards. Refreshing the page makes the text transparent again.
   Viewing the site in Firefox does not have this problem.

   As most of my visitors will be using Internet Explorer 6 and 7, the problem of the invisible text until highlighting is a particular issue. Can anyone suggest a remedy?

   Also, the blogg by email doesn't appear to work. I've set up a secret account in one of my webdomains, and followed the instructions exactly. When I send an email to the designated address the email does not appear on the site.

   I'm using Wordpress v 2.2, with the theme 'cool green 1.0' The theme is a temporary measure until I get the time to design my own (probably using this one as a template)

   Thanks,

   Twilight

2. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   The "transparent" text is most likely a css issue... something firefox "overlooks", but IE doesn't. You'll have to look for "color" in your css, if it matches your background-color somewhere.

   If you provided a link, we could take a look.

3. indigotwilight
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yeah sure,

   http://www.lowenva.net

   I've only just installed Wordpress over the last few days.
   Also, I'm using IE6, not 7 as previously mentioned. I forgot the university hasn't updated their browser software... lol I won't know if the same problem occurs on IE7 until I go home in a couple of hours.

   I did check the css files but couldn't find anything. I'll take another look. :)

   Twilight

   ps. the original wordpress post after installing appears fine. I've even messed around with the text, changed font colours, etc, and don't get the same problem.
   Another theme - midnight sky 100 had sidebar issues. (Again with the text appearing transparent until highlighting)

   In both cases, the text sometimes appears and disappears when I scroll down the page and back up again.

4. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Let's try something... add the following line to the beginning of your css:

   * html .content { height: 1%; }

5. indigotwilight
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks... I tried that and it didn't work. I still have the same problem of text only appearing after highlighting, but partly vanishing when scrolling down and back up again.
   Interestingly enough, I just viewed the site with the default theme and this problem doesn't happen. I wonder if it's a browser compatibility problem with the Cool Green Theme itself.

   I've also noticed the comments don't show in either the cool green theme, or the default. There's also no link for visitors to post comments despite setting the blogg for this in the admin panel. Clicking on 'comment' as linked from the post just displays the home-page. Selecting individual catagories also just displays the home-page too.

   Twilight

6. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That's strange... I'm pretty sure, your text disappears due to an IE bug, which occurs with floating divs, which have a background-color, but no layout the IE would consider as such ;). It's difficult to explain, but that height:1% should have fixed it. The reason why it doesn't occur in the default theme is, that it's not that sloppy when it comes to floating and divs.

   For narrowing down the cause of your problem, try to remove the white background-color of .content and see, if the text still disappears. By "remove", I mean, delete the whole line "background:#fff;" from .content. You also could try to give .content the property "zoom: 1;".

7. indigotwilight
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   OK... I'll give that a try. In the meantime, I've just switched to a theme that is known to be compatible with version 2.2, and the problem does not occur there. This will give me time to address the issue with Cool Green, and then go on to develop my own theme on a desktop version later. (Once I've gotten used to the coding structure)

   The comments problem I eventually pinned down to an issue with the permalinks. Restoring to the default permalink structure allowed for comments to appear, and new ones to be added. Is this a bug in 2.2? Perhaps I should start up a new thread for discussing this problem, unless the permalink thing hasn't been addressed already, that is. :D

   Now I just have to get the blogg by email thing sorted, and Lowenva.net will be up and running.

   Twilight

8. Sivar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Using another theme (or build your own) is probably a good idea. I'm sorry I can't help with the other issues. Good luck! :)

9. indigotwilight
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That's OK... no worries. I've just checked the post on Cool Green theme using IE7 and the problem appears to have been solved. :)
   Explorer 6 is a pain. The damn thing can't even resolve the transparancies on .png properly! In time what I'll probably do is configure a css specially for old versions of internet explorer (v6 and below).

   Twilight

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