By isaacbowman.com on

I never use IE7 (well maybe if there was a gun to my head), so I am not sure when this started happening. God I hope not for too long. But I have a multi site setup running 4 sites on the same code & themes but only one site has issues. IE7 will load any page on this site and then suddenly a black 'curtain' appears across the top of the page. Same issue on 2 PCs. It happens with every theme but only on this one site (other sites using the same theme codes are fine). I started disabling some of the modules and blocks but no luck. Only the nav block is on. Same modules as the other sites on the same multi-site base code. Everything is fine in FF.
Problem site
Please help, this is very frustrating. Thanks in advance.

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davemybes commented

Whoa, that's pretty hectic! Can you post one of the other sites so that we can compare code? Not sure what's causing this - IE7 has no useful diagnostic tools like FF (reason 1002 for not using IE).

*Edit* its a javascript that's causing the trouble. Try disabling lightbox first - this module has had some odd issues before.
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mdixoncm commented

IE does actually have a firebug-esque add-on called the developers toolbar (confusingly!) ... No where near as good as firebug so you won't want to use it for actual development, but handy for debugging IE layout problems (although no JS debugger so wont help in this case!)...

link : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e59c3964-672d-4...

Mike,
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Mike,
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rhondda-ars commented

Right clicking and choosing to save background, it seems that the image is called overlay.png which when I save it off is a small black square.

Can you see anywhere in your code etc that references this image? Check the admin control panel, all module settings etc and see what comes of it.

Does it work OK with other versions of IE? Does it work OK with Firefox and other browsers?

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isaacbowman.com commented

same code base
theworldsgreatestguy.com
themostamazingwoman.com

Yeah they are funny sites but the idea got started over drinks regarding SEO. Thanks so much for your help of the holiday.

Isaac Bowman
www.isaacbowman.com

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isaacbowman.com commented

I like the idea of right clicking for the image (overlay.png). Now I could just find and delete it but then I won't know why its happening only to one site and only on IE. I will look at this more this afternoon.

Isaac Bowman
www.isaacbowman.com

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davemybes commented

Well, there are some major differences between the sites - the other ones you mentioned also have Lightbox2, Greybox and Thickbox loaded, while the problem site doesn't. Its entirely possible that one of those extra modules fixes the problem. I still go for the jlightbox module.

*edit* Just downloaded that module and the overlay.png file is in there. So that's definitely your culprit.
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isaacbowman.com commented

I disabled lightbox2 late last night so when you saw it this morning at 9am it was 'fixed'. I need to test further but by disabling Lightbox2 the black screen goes away. At the time of disabling, all three sites had the same modules installed, running on the same code and themes, yet only isaacbowman had problems in IE7. There must be something that is different.

I will look at it later and try to build a Use Case. Thanks for all of the input and will keep the results posted soon.

Isaac Bowman
www.isaacbowman.com

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isaacbowman.com commented

The two modules in question are:
jLightbox 5.x-1.1
Lightbox2 5.x-2.1

  • When the two modules are BOTH Enabled then there is a black 'curtain' (the overlay.png image) across the top 1/4 of the page in IE7
  • Each module can be active alone without the black curtain
  • Both modules contain the image file: overlay.png
  • It only happens to one of 3 sites running on the same code/theme base
  • Black curtain appeared in multiple themes

I assume that it must be something that I have done wrong along the way that causes the two modules to react like this. I can easily live without both modules being active. But wanted to post this for anyone else that may run into this situation.
Isaac Bowman
www.isaacbowman.com