[drupal-support] Firefox display problem in BlueMarine Theme

[Skip Taylor]

Thanks Jim. I'll play around with that on my sandbox site and see what I can
come up with.


On 9/25/05, Sohodojo Jim <salmons at sohodojo.com> wrote:
>
> Skip,
>
> This is almost certainly the Google Ads block at the top of this
> page. Comment that out for a test, redisplay the page and it will almost
> certainly squish down to the next widest thing on the page.
>
> One way to spot these trouble spots is to widen the page as much as
> possible so the horizontal scroll bar disappears, then grab the right
> window edge and drag the window narrower. When the horizontal scroll bar
> pops up, look at the page and see what block/link/image has stopped
> adjusting itself to the changing window size. Then temporarily comment
> out or delete the suspect item and redisplay the page.
>
> In some cases, there are things you can do to adjust this behavior.
> In other cases, such as an image of a certain size, you can't do much
> but at least you know who the culprit is.
>
> In this case, it appears that the Google Ads block of four items is
> not coded to allow wrapping. A quick look at your page code shows that
> you have:
>
> google_ad_width = 728;
> google_ad_height = 90;
> google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
>
> So the minimum width for this block is 728 pixels. Experiment with
> different values, especially try a percentage width and leave out the
> google_ad_format value if it won't take percentage values.
>
> --Sohodojo Jim--
>
>
> Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> > Skip Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> I'm using the xtemplate based bluemarine theme on Drupal 4.6.3 and
> >> have a problem displaying a node and its comments.
> >>
> >> On the site all navigation is at the right hand edge of the screen.
> >> Only in Firefox does the right hand edge of the screen (navigation
> >> menus) move off screen requiring the use of scroll bars. This
> >> doesn't happen in IE, Opera or IE derivative browsers.
> >>
> >> The page is at http://www.speechcomputing.com/node/390 for anyone to
> >> look at.
> >>
> >> Why just Firefox? I've noticed this anytime the number of comments
> >> grows large.
> >>
> >> Ideas how to fix it?
> >
> >
> > note that the site is as wide as longest link in comment, looks like
> > link is not wrapped and sets the width on middle column. Not sure if
> > that's the case but you can test that pretty easily.
> >
> > erik
>
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