Shoutbox Distortion

I had the same problem and suggested a fix over at the mods beta forum. The problem essentially has to do with wrapping text and the problem can occur with too many smilies or a too-long line of text.

Read this whole thread and see if it helps: http://beta.phpfusion-mods.com/forum/...#post_6613.

Of course, make backups first. No warranty is expressed or implied, but I've got it running like that on my site, and it's running fine. If you want to try this modified shoutbox, goto http://www.evagrius.net.

One more thing ... that link for screendump doesn't show anything helpful.

I tried that, and it did not work. I better screen shot is posted below.



Also, this is with that modification installed.

I went to your site and entered a text sample into the shoutbox, and I see what you mean. Same kind of thing was happening on my site.

I entered the exact same text sample into my shoutbox (which is using the hack/mod outlined at the above url). It did *not* do the same thing as it did on your site, but behaved as I would like it to do. See this sample:

Hmmmm....

In what browsers are you testing your site? It looks different between IE7 and FF2/Opera9 (these two look pretty much the same when it comes to your shoutbox). Trying different browsers can be enlightening on the troubleshooting front.

I also highly recommend the IE7 Developer Toolbar (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/de...laylang=en). You can see all sorts of things and it has greatly reduced my troubleshooting hassles. They've got the same kind of thing for FF too, but I don't remember much about it.

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Also ....

I looked at the source for your page, and found a typo:



should read:



Check the semi-colon after word-wrap. You might want to double check each step of the mod to make sure all of the puncuation is exact.

Thanks for your help I've changed that typo. My only other guess is that it's the theme. I'll switch the theme a few times to see how it looks.

I've since tweaked the line with the typo to work with a few more browsers: Try chaning that whole line in shoutbox_panel.php to:



This edit uses DIV instead of SPAN.

Keep me posted.

Thank you, that's fixed the problem in both FF2 and IE7. In IE7 the text wraps without stretching the shoutbox and in FF2 the long post has a scroll bar under it. Thank you once again for all of your help.