Text box for status "shows" then disappears

I'm fairly sure that's just an IE javascript bug. If I remember correctly Safari does it too. But I'll check when I get home - I only have access to Macs ATM.

Alright, just looked at your site, and it's definitely not the behavior I was expecting. I can't duplicate that behavior either, so I'm not sure how to approach this. The JavaScript for this module is extremely simple; the line in question is basically $('div.facebook_status_form').slideToggle(); - and that shouldn't be causing problems. I suspect that something else on your page is interfering, but I don't know how or why.

Try turning off the JavaScript slide effect to make sure the form actually shows up normally. (The settings form might not be working right now. If it's not, run the command variable_set('facebook_status_ajax', 0); )

I know. See the last section of my last comment (in this issue) for how to change the setting anyway. The issue for this particular problem is #301767.

I have no idea what's going on with this - sorry; I don't even know what to ask you to test. Let me know what version of JQuery you have at least, and what OS you're on. As a temporary fix, you can wrap the contents of facebook_status.js in this JavaScript, which will disable the sliding toggle for IE:

var browser=navigator.appName;
if (browser!="Microsoft Internet Explorer")
{
/* Put the original code here. */
}

Mmph. None of that helps me much, although I appreciate the effort.

Perhaps the problem has to do with CSS. It may be that a stylesheet you have defines a positioning or display property for form items that conflicts with JQuery's slideToggle effect. There are a few IE addons out there that let you mess with the CSS in real time - not as good as FireBug, but similar; try using one of those to see if you can fix the issue there. If you can, we can figure out the best way to implement that change. If not... just go with the hack I suggested above I guess.

Okay, then. Since it's not an error with facebook_status, I'm closing this one. Thanks for looking into it.

I'm having the same issue with the latest dev version of 5.x. With the slide effect enabled, when I click my user name, the box slides open, and my page reloads, causing the box to disappear.

When I disable the slide effect the box appears fine. I'm using the Garland theme. Any ideas?

Also, it looks nothing like the screenshot. Is that screenshot only for the 6.x version?

The 5.x branch is barely supported, but what you're experiencing is expected. The username is a link; when you click a link you go to that page. If you click the status text instead, the box will slide open.

Also, 6.2.x is an entirely different code base than 5.1.x and a lot has changed. The slide feature no longer exists, for instance. At this point, there's really no reason to still be on D5 anyway, since pretty much all modules are upgraded to D6 and D7 isn't far away. It's also much easier to upgrade most sites (and even custom code, thanks to modules like Coder and Deadwood) from D5 to D6 than you'd think.

Aha! I should've noticed that. lol

I made a small change to hopefully not confuse people with it (other members were reporting the same thing to me thinking it was a bug), by removing the link to the profile when showing in the Status block.

Changed this: $fbs_name = theme('username', $account2);
To this: $fbs_name = $account2->name;

I also made the status block only show up on profiles by setting the Visibility to only show when PHP returns true, and adding this code (in case anyone else wants to do the same thing):

<?php
if( arg(0)=='user' && !(arg(2)))
{
return true;
}
?>

I'm holding off on upgrading Drupal until D7 comes out. Seems too close to a D7 release to go through any hassles of a D6 upgrade.