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By cschall on
I have been working on getting the site ready for the client. One of the things that I've been working on is menus and links that are displayed on the left side to enable the client to administer the web site.
Suddenly all of the formatting has been lost in my left side blocks/menus.
When I view the page now I see:
link link link
link link link
Instead of
(img) link
(img) link
(img) link
(img) link
When I view the source, it's as if the images were never there.
I'm sure that I hit the wrong button somewhere, but desparately need to fix this before I meet with my client.
THANKS!
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I feel your pain. Tell us
I feel your pain. Tell us how you put the images in there. Were they list markers?
D. Lynn
The scary thing is that I
The scary thing is that I didn't do anything to the content or the images, there was some global setting that I must have changed, but have no clue what it was.
I just happened to notice the missing images. I have custom blocks for navigation and there's no html formatting that gets displayed on the site now - it's missing from the view source. Plus, I saw that I have some header text on a node page that had line breaks and now all of that text is jammed together too.
It looks awful and looks like I didn't put any time into the site. There's no way I can recreate this all before my meeting and even if I could, I don't know where I'd start.
This is an example of one piece of code that still shows up like this in the admin edit block, but is nowhere to be found on the site as intended.
Help from me
...is cold comfort, I'm real new to this stuff, but sometimes if I help someone badly, someone else will feel sorry for you and give you the right answer. :^) In the meantime, you need to give more information.
Were you using the "nice menu" module? Adding custom markers to the regular Drupal menu? Pasting html code directly into custom blocks? What you were doing just before this happened? Were you editing a css, or template file?
One quick check is to go back over any files you changed to look for typos. A missing quote or an accidentally deleted closing tag is easy to overlook, and can mess up everything after it. A quick way to find such problems is to run your file(s) through W3's validator.
Bon Chance,
D. Lynn
figured it out... duh!
Thanks for helping me to hunt this down. I finally figured it out. I now know should not go pressing buttons while doing late night programming the night before a client presentation.
That said, I had checked the "Filter HTML" box on the input formats. Once I unchecked it, everything went back to normal. Like magic. YAY!
Thanks again.
Great News!
Did you fix it in time for your meeting?
Funny, while I was considering your problem, I kept thinking about my experience with Mailhandler. When I configured Mailhandler to accept "Full HTML" inputs, suddenly all former posts of that node type (that were made with "Filtered HTML" checked) looked unformatted, like they were "pre" tagged. I didn't mention it because you didn't say anything about Mailhandler, but hey, should have trusted my intuition! :^)
So glad you're up and running. One more thought, last week I had a scare of another kind. I posted for help and of course, not a peep in response. Knowing I had all files backed up and a recent MySQL dump helped me not panic.
Cheers,
D. Lynn
Thanks!
You're been so very helpful! Much appreciated. I too am new to this and am learning some things the hard way.
Unfortunately I didn't find the solution prior to the meeting, but the client was very understanding and knew that I'd figure it out. Glad they had confidence in me. =)