Thanks for the suggestion Dave. The html is fine. I've stripped my tpl template back to ONLY this fieldset and the same thing happens....admin role sees clickable link, lower role sees red unclickable text.

the entire content of my tpl file is now:

<fieldset class="collapsible collapsed">
<legend>View Map (click to open)</legend>

<img style="margin:2px;" src="http://maps.google.com/staticmap?center=<?php print $node->field_team_coordinates[0]['view'] ?>&zoom=15&size=240x250&markers=<?php print $node->field_coordinates[0]['view'] ?>,midyellow&key=123456" border="0">

</fieldset>

it's almost as if the lower roles don't have access to that field, but I don't have any field access modules operating. Is there any reason why javascript wouldn't be working for those roles? The odd thing is, when I use web dev firefox add-on to disable javascript, the fieldset is open by default so I don't think that's the problem either.

*slowly going crazy*

On 27/10/2010 15:37, Metzler, David wrote: 
In my experience the most common cause is invalid HTML, specifically
unclosed tags and such.  Run your page through the W3C validator to
check. 

Dave 

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Neil Coghlan
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 11:01 AM
To: support@drupal.org
Subject: [support] Why would one role be able to click collapsible
fieldsets....and another role couldn't?

I know the answer to this is blindingly obvious but I've been very deep
in the drupal forest in the last few weeks and can't see any individual
trees anymore!

High role (admin!) can see clickable link which expands a fieldset.
Log out
Log in as any other role - link has turned into red text, no link, can't
expand.

is it something on the permissions page that would do this?

it's not my template...I do have a couple of php conditionals wrapping
the fieldset but it's nothing to do with roles

<?php if ($node->field_team_coordinates[0]['value']) : ?> <?php if
($page != 0): ?>

1. only show fieldset if field is filled out 2. only show fieldset on
node view, not on index pages, teasers, etc.

what could be un-hyperlinking the fieldset?

Neil
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