Center box titles disappear in IE6 browser in Slash theme [#28522]

The center box titles disappear in Microsoft's IE6 web browser. They are actually there but appear in the color of the bar instead of white. When you mouse over the title it appears in the "mouse-over" color selected in the theme. This does not happen in Firefox under XP or either Safari or Firefox under Apple's Os X 10.3.9. I have not been able to duplicate this on any of my Linux systems either. This appears to be a problem in IE6 only. Unfortunately that seems to be the predominate web browser in use.

Attached is an image from a site I'm trying to set up. As you can see, the corner blocks are gone. That appears fo be a problem with the transparent PNG images for the blue and green styles of the theme. The red and black styles appear to have the corner blocks correctly. If the images are changed to transparent GIFs instead and the code modified accordingly they appear as normal. I do not have a graphic program that properly handles the .png images to be able to set the transparent bits needed to make the block functional. I will provide the corner blocks modified as .GIF images if you want to add them to a newer release of the theme.

BTW, your own web site seems to function properly in all available browsers. The underlying code for the Drupal CMS is version 4.6.2 that I'm trying to work with.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#2	n2jeu-2.jpg	106.75 KB	arnoldr
	n2jeutst.jpg	75.73 KB	arnoldr

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Comment #1

frjo CreditAttribution: frjo commented 10 August 2005 at 12:42

Thanks for the testing.

The transparent PNG images for the blue and green styles had rgb colour space while the others had a index colour space. Apparently buggy IE6 doesn't like rgb. I have now updated the images in 4.6 and cvs. Wait a day for the package to rebuild or grab the new images directly from cvs.

The theme file is also updated, I removed the extra edit link since it caused problems with PHP5.

I hope it will work better for you now.

Comment #2

arnoldr CreditAttribution: arnoldr commented 10 August 2005 at 16:31

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I've pulled the graphics files and the theme file from CVS and the corner block problem is now fixed.

The problem remains with the title disappearing from the center blocks when using IE6 as the web browser. I've tried changing the text color to black in the .css file in h1.nodetitle with no effect at all. It does not appear that text color changes to the center block title work at all in IE6. A change to the background color does work however but the title text remains "invisible". Mousing over the text may make it appear in a random color.

A snapshot of the screen using IE6 is attached.

Comment #3

arnoldr CreditAttribution: arnoldr commented 10 August 2005 at 17:18

BTW, I forgot to mention that your site (xdeb.org) looks fine in the same web browser (IE6) so there must be some difference between the theme as used on your site and the released theme.

Bob Arnold

Comment #4

frjo CreditAttribution: frjo commented 14 August 2005 at 08:24

I have compered the version of slash on xdeb.org with the official one but can not understand why one gives problem with IE6 and the other don't. There are only small differences, a hack for topic images etc.

arnoldr: Please drop me a line via http://drupal.org/user/5546/contact if you want the version I use on xdeb.org. Maybe you can find out what the problem is?

Comment #5

wernst CreditAttribution: wernst commented 29 August 2005 at 19:17

I have come up with a solution to the "Node Titles" disappear when visited in IE6/Windows problem.

In styles.css, line 235, you see:

a.nodetitle:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
  }

Change this to:

a.nodetitle:visited {
  color: #ffffff;
  }

a.nodetitle:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #ffffff;
  }

As you can see, I manually designated White (color #FFFFFF) to the nodetitle when visited, as well as when hovering.

You should be able to make this change for all the color sets that come with the Slash theme; just alter the style.css file appropriately.

Also, this doesn't break Firefox/Windows, but I am not able to easily test the other platforms until later this week. That said, I don't see how this could break anything (famous last words), so I would suggest just trying it.

Should it pass muster, I hope it can find its way back into the official theme. I know nothing about patching or adding things to the CVS...

-Warr

Comment #6

frjo CreditAttribution: frjo commented 30 August 2005 at 05:25

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Nice work finding this IE6 bug wernst! I'm testing this on xdeb.org now and it gives no ill effect in either Safari or Firefox on Mac OS X, and it shouldn't.

After some more testing I will put this in Slash 4.6 and cvs.

Comment #7

wernst CreditAttribution: wernst commented 30 August 2005 at 18:08

That's great news. Thanks for the kudos!

You know, I've been using and modifying Drupal since 4.4.1 for my own uses, and this is the first time I've actually officially contributed back. Feels good!

-Warr