Evil black box forums bug

[vass0922]

Opera 7.23 and Opera 7.5

Doesn't seem to show up in mozilla or internet hijacker

The box doesn't really bother me... what kills me is that it shrinks up the recent posts box

It doesn't do it on all pages. The main forums page is fine.


I asked over to Opera forums to see if it was possibly a Opera bug. The response I got was that it was unlikely

http://my.opera.com/forums/showthrea...ight=black+box

[rpertusio]

If it helps any... that is the ad. Are you blocking the ads somehow?

If there IS a problem, the 'problem code' is somewhere in here:

<Td width="15%" bgcolor="#EDEDED">
        <div align="center"> 
<!-- START ADCYCLE IFRAME RICH MEDIA CACHE-BUST CODE for 125 Sidebar Right #1 -->
<script language="javascript"><!--
var id=886; var jar=new Date();var s=jar.getSeconds();var m=jar.getMinutes();
var flash=s*m+id;var cgi='http://www.techimo.com/adserver/perl';
var p='<iframe src="'+cgi+'/adcycle.cgi?gid=3&t=_top&id='+flash+'&type=iframe" ';
p+='height=125 width=125 border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 hspace=0 ';
p+='vspace=0 frameborder=0 scrolling=no>';
p+='<a href="'+cgi+'/adclick.cgi?gid=3&id='+flash+'" target="_top">';
p+='<img src="'+cgi+'/adcycle.cgi?gid=3&id='+flash+'" width=125 height=125 ';
p+='border=1 alt="Click to Visit"></a></iframe>'; document.write(p); // -->
</script><noscript><a href="http://www.techimo.com/adserver/perl/adclick.cgi?gid=3&id=886" target="_top">
<img src="http://www.techimo.com/adserver/perl/adcycle.cgi?gid=3&id=886" width=125 height=125 border=1></a></noscript>
<!-- END ADCYCLE IFRAME RICH MEDIA CODE -->
</div>

</td>

I don't see anything that sticks out that would cause it to show a black box.
- rp

[implexant]

neither do I. I think it's an opera problem. IE 6 SP1 works great for me *shrug*

-Chris

[rpertusio]

Actually, I take my comment back. It isn't the ad at all. I thought it was *not* displaying the "ResellerRatings" ad, but I looked again and I see it is shown.

It actually does look like a table issue, now that I look at it. If you know enough about HTML, you could start chopping/adding stuff out to isolate the code.

- rp

[jkrohn]

neither do I. I think it's an opera problem. IE 6 SP1 works great for me *shrug*

Ignorance at its finest, it appears you didn't actually read the link?
**edited since rpesters (or however you spell it read it)

Also that is not the ad. If you look at his screenshot again, the add is there. The problem lies in what looks to be right below that code with the colspan.

Vass, check this page, black box gone?
http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/jkrohn/www/timo.html

Jkrohn

[davidamarkley]

I just checked it out with Opera 7.23, and the black box is gone in your version of the page, jkrohn.

If you could post what changes you made, TIMO could probably make the fix quicker.

Nice fine though...

David

[jkrohn]

I changed

<Tr><Td colspan="3" bgcolor="#EDEDED"><Table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><Td>

to

<Tr><Td colspan="2" bgcolor="#EDEDED"><Table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><Td>

[implexant]

Originally posted by jkrohn
Ignorance at its finest, it appears you didn't actually read the link?

Whatever. I did read the link. All I know is that for the 95% of the world that actually uses a browser that doesn't crap out when it runs into a little bit of a table problem, it actually works.

Browsers now-a-days need to be somewhat lenient with their code translation.

And anyway, aren't you the expert of insignificance?

-Chris

[jkrohn]

Whatever. I did read the link.

Then you would understand that it is a *coding* problem and not a browser problem. It would be different if the code was correct and the browser was displaying it incorrectly.

Unfortunately the code is incorrect and the browser is displaying the code *correctly* (as in how it is written, not how it was intended).

We could argue all day which avenue is better (adherence to standards vs interpertation) but that would be pointless. The fact of the matter is that it is an error in code that is causing that.

The fix is above.

Jkrohn

[rpertusio]

ahh, so I guess the problem was that a cell was trying to span '3' columns when the row below it only had 2 columns (two non-spanning 'TD's)

I believe it would also work to make one of the cells in the row below it span 2 columns. (3 cells in the first row... 3 cells in the 2nd row)

- rp