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tables/yext jump around from one page to..
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 2:52 pm |
| on certain other sections of my site. certain bits of text cause my tables/yext
to jump around from one page to the next. they are all based on the same
template. again i'm totally confused. it did this in dreamweaver mx as well as
mx 2004
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 2:57 pm |
| no one has any ideas??
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| Murray *TMM* 2004-04-21, 2:57 pm |
| Most likely everyone is trying to figure out how "yext" fits into the
equation. 8)
No doubt it is due to your page layout methods. A poorly implemented table,
for example, will cause exactly this to happen. You(must remember that
Template markup does nothing to constrain page layout. You sould have the
same problem on non-templated pages.
Without seeing your code it would be hard to say more....
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"sploog" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> no one has any ideas??
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 2:59 pm |
| :) typos, bah!
what do you mean by poorly implemented table?
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 2:59 pm |
| the site is here
http://www.andreaparker.info/index.html
the problem happens on some of the articles pages in the press section.it
happenes on the discography page and i think that it.
ALSO, i still get a weird message on the discography page when i edit it. it
says i'm editing it in a uneditable area (which i'm not) and if i save it,
changes will be lost next time i apply the template. although i don't think it
lost the changes. this only happens on this page, although i got to happen on
another page once. when that happened, i created an all new template. but even
with the new template i had this problem again on the discography page
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| Murray *TMM* 2004-04-21, 3:00 pm |
| On the discography page, I see the following -
1. There is no editable region around the document's <title>. This is
unusual, and indicates that the template has not been properly created -
<meta name="keywords" content="andrea parker, david morley, electronic
music, mo wax, infonet, kiss my arp">
<title>Andrea Parker. Kiss my Web. an unofficial website.</title>
<style type="text/css">
In addition, there is no editable region in the head of the template,
either. This is also indicative of bad methodology in creating the
template.
To see how it should look, create a new page and save it as a template.
Look at the code.
2. Points are a print metric, not a web metric. Using points to size your
text on the web will result in text that is differently sized in different
browser/platforms. Use pixels, percent, ems or any of the other metrics
instead of points to get more uniform results. You may also find that 7
point text is much too small to read on some systems -
body { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt
3. Many broken image links - both in your preload on the <body> and on the
page itself -
file:///mermaids.on.mars%20hd/Users/jeffbirgbauer/01%20websites/images/home-over.jpg
This can happen when you insert an image from outside your defined site
without copying it into the site. The solution is to make all of these
links again (or adjust the code manually) and save the document within your
site.
I don't see any obvious errors elsewhere, but might have missed some. It's
not clear why DMX is complaining about your edits, but if there are errors
on the page, anything is possible. Can you fix those up and see if the
problem lingers?
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"sploog" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> the site is here
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> http://www.andreaparker.info/index.html
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> the problem happens on some of the articles pages in the press section.it
> happenes on the discography page and i think that it.
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> ALSO, i still get a weird message on the discography page when i edit it.
it
> says i'm editing it in a uneditable area (which i'm not) and if i save it,
> changes will be lost next time i apply the template. although i don't
think it
> lost the changes. this only happens on this page, although i got to happen
on
> another page once. when that happened, i created an all new template. but
even
> with the new template i had this problem again on the discography page
>
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:00 pm |
| 1. that's because i took them out of the title and head. i want to be able to
edit that without having to do it it on every page. why should i keep them in?
i don't think this would cause my tables to jump around on the news,
discography, and some of the articles pages
2. i usually do px
3. yeah i know about the broken links etc on the discography page. as i
mentioned it thinks i'm editing in an unedible region and itsn't saving my
changes. it was saving them ok yesterday but not today.
re: badly implemented tables. i don't have any
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| Murray *TMM* 2004-04-21, 3:01 pm |
| sploog:
> 1. that's because i took them out of the title and head. i want to be able
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> edit that without having to do it it on every page. why should i keep them
in?
So - you want every page to have the same title? How strange.
> i don't think this would cause my tables to jump around on the news,
> discography, and some of the articles pages
No - it wouldn't. But it may be why DW is barking at you when you open the
page and try to edit it.
> 2. i usually do px
Px is OK.
> re: badly implemented tables. i don't have any
Not on that page, at least.
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"sploog" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> 1. that's because i took them out of the title and head. i want to be able
to
> edit that without having to do it it on every page. why should i keep them
in?
> i don't think this would cause my tables to jump around on the news,
> discography, and some of the articles pages
>
> 2. i usually do px
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> 3. yeah i know about the broken links etc on the discography page. as i
> mentioned it thinks i'm editing in an unedible region and itsn't saving my
> changes. it was saving them ok yesterday but not today.
>
> re: badly implemented tables. i don't have any
>
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:01 pm |
| i figured out why it wouldn't save changes. it left an EndEdible tag in the
page. even though it was deleted from the template, it didn't delete it off the
rest of the pages. so i removed it from all the pages.
now if i can figure out why the stupid tables are jumping around :)
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:01 pm |
| that page is the same as all the other pages. i don't use badly implemented tables
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:04 pm |
| now i'm going crazy! well i was before but now more so.
i decided to start from scratch with the template. now it give me an error
that says:
there is an error at.... Unbalanced InstanceBegin. i have no idea why it's
doing this. i didn't even delete the title or head editable regions that it
created automatically
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:04 pm |
| now i'm getting this latest error with a totally new html.
i didn't add any of my info.
maybe i need to reinstall Studio MX
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:04 pm |
| how strange. i can create a new template fine and it updated the other page i
created to go with it, when done within another site i've done. but if i save
that template into the the andrea parker site i can't update any of the pages.
i get the same error InstanceEdible
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:04 pm |
| how strange. i can create a new template fine and it updated the other page i
created to go with it, when done within another site i've done. but if i save
that template into the the andrea parker site i can't update any of the pages.
i get the same error as before, Unbalanced InstanceBegin. i think i'm going mad!
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:04 pm |
| ok i figured it out. now i hope it doesn't do the jumping tables thing once i redo everything. this program is killing me lately!
i'm closing for now
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 3:07 pm |
| well the site works fine now since i don't have it aligned to center. apparently that messes it up. . i'll have ot figure out someway to fix this. arghhhhh....)
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| sploog 2004-04-21, 10:31 pm |
| well apparently the table jumping around is an issue for Mac users using Safari
or IE
this only happens on some of my sites and certain pages. very very very
strange. it does not appear to happen with a PC.
now i'm getting that error again on the discography page. it claims i'm
editiaing a unedible section and my changes won't be saved next time i update
the template. strange again. i think it's an issue with MX 2004
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| sploog 2004-04-22, 5:31 pm |
| the problem has been solved. Safari and IE for the Mac don't automatically
render scrollbars unless they are needed.
when a page is loaded that requires you to scroll, the scrollbar appears which
causes the table to offset the text/table the pixel width of the scrollbar
IE and Mozilla for PCs automatically render scrollbars, so i don't have the
problem.
anyone know a way a way to force a browser to render scrollbars?
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