We don't have very many participants in the project-wide community at the English Wikibooks and very few of those have the technical knowledge or desire to worry about the site JavaScript or CSS. I recently noticed that the vertical border between tabs under the default Vector skin is missing entirely under Internet Explorer 8, but only when logged out. Strangely enough the borders appear when logged in. No problems under Firefox either way. I don't experience any problems at any other Wikimedia site. I was wondering if anyone had any insights as to what could cause this.
-- Adrignola
Aaron Adrignola aaron.adrignola@gmail.com writes:
I recently noticed that the vertical border between tabs under the default Vector skin is missing entirely under Internet Explorer 8, but only when logged out.
I'm able to duplicate this on wikibooks in IE8 and IE9. Interestingly, the Wikibooks logo also disappears when I'm logged out.
I didn't see these problems on Wiktionary or Wikipedia.
Weird,
Mark.
mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
I'm able to duplicate this on wikibooks in IE8 and IE9. Interestingly, the Wikibooks logo also disappears when I'm logged out.
The problem is caused by the notice from CentralNotice. Whoever put in the notice included <span class="plainlinks"> and did not close the span tag. That span tag can be eliminated entirely.
If the plainlinks class is desired for some reason, it can still be used by adding it to the list of classes for the a element:
class="external text plainlinks”
HTH,
Mark.
On 11/26/2010 5:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
I'm able to duplicate this on wikibooks in IE8 and IE9. Interestingly, the Wikibooks logo also disappears when I'm logged out.
The problem is caused by the notice from CentralNotice. Whoever put in the notice included<span class="plainlinks"> and did not close the span tag. That span tag can be eliminated entirely.
If the plainlinks class is desired for some reason, it can still be used by adding it to the list of classes for the a element:
class="external text plainlinks”HTH,
Mark.
Thank you very much Mark, trying to track this down.
Interestingly none of our running banners had plainlinks running and only 1 of them uses <span> tags (But without the class and closed right after the text). We could definitely remove those tags, they aren't really needed anymore but it doesn't appear to care which banner is showing :-/ (in the US that banner is running at 5% and on English projects without category 1 chapters it isn't running at all).
I removed the span tags http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template... but I'm not sure those were the issue...
I did find a piece in our common style that someone added a couple months ago to fix a problem we had with all our text banners.
/* Suppress lock icon for secure links */ #content a[href^="https://"], .link-https { background-image: none !important; padding: 0 !important; }
I removed it ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Centralnotice-shared-c... ) since we don't have any banners that need it and it was the closest we had... However the banner cache is clear at this point and I'm still getting the problem on Wikibooks.
I'm poking through the code to try and find what it could be. Do you remember where in the css you saw the open plainlinks span?
James
On 11/26/2010 5:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes:
I'm able to duplicate this on wikibooks in IE8 and IE9. Interestingly, the Wikibooks logo also disappears when I'm logged out.
The problem is caused by the notice from CentralNotice. Whoever put in the notice included<span class="plainlinks"> and did not close the span tag. That span tag can be eliminated entirely.
If the plainlinks class is desired for some reason, it can still be used by adding it to the list of classes for the a element:
class="external text plainlinks”HTH,
Mark.
Ahhh found it in the local site notice. Span was closed 45 minutes ago http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&diff=1980... and after purging I'm getting it all back now. Must have been being cached while I was refreshing. Thank you Darklama.
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