Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

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5/1/2011 10:21:49 AM

wannabe

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Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

Hi,

I am new to mojo portal and have been somewhat struggling to learn it.

From the beginning when I click on the edit field it has only rendered a few pixels wide; so I was just dragging it at the bottom every time. I wanted to make the edit box start at at least 500px and played around in the feature and configuration portion of the Admin. I tried to add a HtmlEditorWidthSetting like the HtmlEditorHeightSetting (without having any idea of what I was doing). I just duplicated the info in the EditorHeightSetting.

This approach of course did not work as it has no reference and I don't know where to make one; so i deleted only what I had created.

Unfortunately, now in i.e. 8 I am no longer able to see an edit box at all. When I click on edit it will bring me to a new page that has an update button but no Editor. Strangely, I still have the edit box when I use firefox. I am hosting on Arvixe. If I can get the Editor back - is there a way to make it wider and change the background color so a white font can be seen?

Since I don't really know what I am doing this project is taking me forever. .. appreciate any help!

Also - quick question about content templates...I only found one video on it that did not go into much detail are there any others you can recommend? Although not an expert on CSS I do know a little - can you use the id selector in the content templates?

5/1/2011 10:35:04 AM

wannabe

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Re: Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

Not sure if this helps but wanted to include what the log file states:

2011-05-01 00:11:34,169 INFO mojoPortal.Business.WebHelpers.IndexWriterTask - Queued IndexWriterTask on a new thread
2011-05-01 00:12:24,479 INFO mojoPortal.Business.WebHelpers.IndexWriterTask - started IndexWriterTask task
2011-05-01 00:12:34,213 INFO mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - started WebTaskManager task
2011-05-01 00:33:16,379 INFO mojoPortal.Web.Global - Global.asax.cs Application_End
2011-05-01 07:43:25,566 INFO mojoPortal.Web.Global - Application Started.

Thanks again for any help.

5/1/2011 11:35:07 AM

Joe Audette

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Re: Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

Hi,

What version of mojoPortal are you using? You can find out from Administration > System Information.

If you are not using the latest version, I would recommend upgrading.

Really the editors are all configured to use 100% width so the width is determined by the width of the container div. That is why we only have a setting for editor height. You might try using a different skin and see if the skin is a factor. I would also navigate away from your site, clear the browser cache of temporary internet files then go back and see if the editor works. I would keep an eye out for script errors which may be indicated at the bottom left of the browser.

You might also try the demo site, I don't think you will encounter any problem with the editor there.

Hope that helps,

Joe

5/1/2011 11:40:09 AM

Joe Audette

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Re: Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

You can control the editor background and foreground colors like this from CSS (only in the latest version of mojoPortal).

body.wysiwygeditor (background-color:white; color:black; }

You "could" use an id selector with a content template, but I would generally avoid that and try not to use ids in the template at all because ids must be unique to a page so if you use the content template more than once on a page and it has ids it will cause an error about duplicate ids.

It is much safer to use class names instead of ids in content templates, and you can learn a lot from our tutorial CSS It's All About Understanding Selectors.

Hope that helps,

Joe

5/1/2011 12:22:45 PM

wannabe

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Re: Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

Hi Joe,

The version is:

2.3.6.2 MSSQL
Operating System Microsoft Windows NT 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2
ASP.NET Info v2.0.50727 Running in Full Trust
Server Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time
Server Local Time (GMT -7) 5/1/2011 10:10:25 AM
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UTC) 5/1/2011 5:10:25 PM

I saw that there was a new release shortly after I had started using this. I am afraid to upgrade as I am fearful of losing the work I have already done. (being a novice)

I did try deleting the cache from my browser several times; I also uploaded the user.config with

there are no script errors at the bottom of the page.

It is working fine in firefox just not IE. It was working fine in IE before.

Any other ideas?

5/1/2011 12:26:19 PM

Joe Audette

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Re: Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

does it happen in all features or just the html content feature?

did you try changing skins to see if the skin is a factor?

5/1/2011 2:16:11 PM

wannabe

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Re: Lost the edit field in I.E. 8 - unable to edit

It only happens in the HTML content features and only with ie.

When I changed skins the edit feature worked in ie; so it is something I did yesterday which I can't figure out - the only files I updated yesterday were the csssytle file and one css style I added and the css config file.

I've been trying to see what could be causing it with no luck. If you have any further suggestions; please let me know.

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