By joelbox-mondial-it on

Hi, I have created a black and gold theme. There aren't much black themes in drupal, so it took quite some work to redo the garland in black.

I now have a bit of a difficult to find remainder-issue. When a new page loads, or press F5, the screen has a short white interval. I suppose there is still some code somewhere, that empties a page before writing the new info onto it. (It is propably not in the styles.css)

It is quite annoying to see these white flashes. Using firebug I can not find where this background-white is set or how to change it.

Any ideas would be very welcome. You can check it our on mondialagency.com if you like.

kind regards,
Joel

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TapocoL commented

If I read this correctly, this is not a problem you can do anything about. The white screen is given by the browser. If you change your browser preferences to show a black background with white text, then your browser will show a black screen on those reloads. This is all dependent on how each user's browser is set.

-Craig Jackson
-Web Developer

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joelbox-mondial-it commented

Thanks Craig,

That would be a bummer, for the black themes. Can I perhaps do something to avoid complete pagereloads, so that the pages are sort of overwriting the current screen? Perhaps run in a frame?

thanks for your help
Joel

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silverwing commented

my site has a black background and I don't think I have the white page on f5 that you do.

And I'd avoid frames. They're so 1994.

~silverwing

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joelbox-mondial-it commented

Hi Silverwing,

Thanks for the reply. I checked out your site, what a beauty! and we share the same interests I see.

Your site works great, many compliments on the design. In fact one of the nicest drupals I have seen sofar. The round edges look very nice.

I see no white flashes in between whatsoever and the smooth overlapping of new pages is super. So now I just have to figure out what is different between your settings and mine. Can you help me with that?

I based it on Garland and adjusted the styles,css to make it black and gold. So a start would be to compare the stylesheets, or do see another possible approach. I can send you mine, if that would help. I would also be happy to look at yours and see if I can find the differences.

Joel

The frame I am trying to loose, but that has to do with the how the url is being redirected.

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silverwing commented

Garland isn't really that user-friendly of a theme. If you've adjusted the style.css, you may want to disable the color.module that controls the style.

I don't use Garland (obviously). My theme actually started life as Danger4k.

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steve-psngs commented

I'm sure there's something else going on, it really doesn't seem style related.
More like something forcing a complete refresh to your site/page each time.
Have you had a look at the caching features in administration ?
I never get a white screen like this, even on a hard refresh (or perhaps it happens but is so fast it doesn't show).

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shishira commented

<style type="text/css" media="all">@import "/path to file.css";</style>

is known to solve the problem

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joelbox-mondial-it commented

Hi Shishira, thanks for the reply,

That sounds promising. I checked my page.tpl.php, that actually has this line in the top. Can I ask what made you think of this, perhaps there is some clue in there.

Joel

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shishira commented

the white screen flash usually happens cus of the css being loaded the last

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shishira commented

adding style="background:#000000;" to the body tag in page.tpl.php should work

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joelbox-mondial-it commented

thanks, Shisira