Menubar missing in Firefox

[damon18]

Strange deal with Firefox I can't figure out.

The menubar with the links
Home * Search * Member List etc..
is appearing just fine in IE7 but not at all in Firefox 2.0.0.4

Could some of you please look at this site
http://test.thebeachcats.com/classifieds/index.php
and let me know if you see the same thing? The really strange part is that the page source is the same on both, I can't tell any reason from the html on the source why that line shouldn't display.

The site is still being developed so I've got the test subdomain password protected. You can use
username = invited
password = member
to access the domain.

Thanks,

Damon

[Michael P]

Try taking out your header code to see if the menu reappears; maybe its something with that code which is some how interfering?

[damon18]

Removing everything in header.htm did restore the menubar, but of course that's not a solution.

The header content didn't use tables. I hated to add yet another table to the classifieds but by wrapping my header div in a table the menubar is showing in both browsers.

[Michael P]

I would double check your header code; something about it is interfering with the code below it. Try adding a spacer in case the div tags are overwriting the menu itself.

[damon18]

I triple checked it before posting, but was hoping someone else could see something I couldn't.

It was a strange problem since Firefox left the space for the menubar, and the code was in the source, but nothing on screen. While everything looked fine in IE with the same source.

[Michael P]

Try putting in some line breaks above the menu just to see if it displays it.

[damon18]

No need for that now that I've wrapped the header div in a table. I'm on to the other dozens of details to get right before finally going live.

It's really no fun at all to deal with this "unique" template system. I'm finding things in both php and tmpl files that need to be changed for layout, but I understand that all of these are core files and subject to change in any new version. Am I right that there is no way to override templates, say have a /local version of a template that won't be overwritten later?

[Michael P]

You can move the templates to a directory other than template and then change the template variable in the config-inc.php file (like, say, local).

// All of the .tmpl files are placed into a directory called "templates"; if you wish to change the
// name of the directory to something else to protect your files, you may do so and indicate the name
// of the directory here - this is not a path to the directory, just the directory name; the directory
// cannot be moved from the PhotoPost main directory.
$TMPL_PATH = "templates";

[damon18]

Originally Posted by Michael P

You can move the templates to a directory other than template and then change the template variable in the config-inc.php file (like, say, local).

That's a good piece of information! I'm sure I read that back when I installed, but it didn't mean anything to me then since I figured there was a template override system.

Thanks,

Damon