http://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=2279&p=16438#p16438
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moreteavicar
Tue 12 Jun, 2007 00:28

Re: How To Integrate Global Blocks In Another Page
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Is there a body page for activity (or whatever you want to add) that also needs updating? Sometimes you need to be cautious about the body files of mods you're adding, especially if they don't contain everything in its own table. On their own (or straight phpbb), if the mod you're adding has a missing tag (say </td>, most browsers normally predict and correct (although firefox doesn't do as much of this as it did under original mozilla) - but with the IMportal style additional tags in header and footer, (now expanded in IP), browsers try and "mate" the wrong tags, giving a messy layout. (Put another way, the reason the old phpbbXS templates looked ok was because the browser corrected for a lot of missing tags, and the IMportal forum-wide (global) sidebar was disabled by Bicet - I suspect it took a bit of work to iron out those problems for IP forum-wide / global blocks to work without messing up the layout!)

I guess the moral of the story is... do a html markup validation on the mod running independently of IP before adding it, so you can look out for any missing tags and correct them before adding it, especially in regard of the global blocks scheme.


