I am experiencing what seems to be a refresh bug. This is occuring on various pages and i have not seemed to have found any type of consitency with it.

I am using the Midgard Drop in Template. The issue is as follows:

If i post a large thread the post frame will extend beyond the boundaries of the cream/tan colored background without the borders and background extending to encompass that post. However upon some persistence and constant refreshes eventually it takes.

I have analyzed the section of css code and believe the following settings govern the border:

}

#content .outer
{
background: url('http://dkpfiles.com/dkp-templates/midgard/border-left.jpg') repeat-y left top;
height: 100%;
padding-left: 49px;
}

#content .inner
{
background: url('http://dkpfiles.com/dkp-templates/midgard/border-right.jpg') repeat-y right top;
height: 100%;
padding-right: 49px;
}

The height settings are set to 100% and it is my understanding that this should be sufficient to tell both the left and right borders to extend around the entire forum frame as it grow larger. However the forum frame will extend over the bottom border and over the blue page background.

Any help or insight would be appreciated.

Thanks

Internet Explorer has some issues with that particular template. The initial problem was the contents of the page ending up behind the border, with the border actually covering some of the content of the site (which is obviously unacceptable). The solution was to simply make it so that if it happens that way (and like you said, it's an intermittent in IE's CSS rendering), that the page will simply render on top of the border.

I must stress, though, that this is an issue exclusive to Internet Explorer.

Cool, so its an issue with IE. I am starting to understand your particular quote choice lol.

Are you aware of any hot fixes for IE7 that may rectify the css rendering issue.

Also a thought, could this be caused by the way in which the actual border graphic was rendered when it was created. Just wondering if re-rendering the graphic and saving it to web as another format that is more cross browser compatible might fix the issue

Thanks so much for your help

Not that I'm aware of. I wouldn't hold my breath



I'm afraid not. It's just a jpeg, which is pretty much the most cross-platform format around. If it were, say, a PNG file with alpha transparency, then that would be a possibility, but as a JPEG, you're pretty much guaranteed to not have problems related to that.

An interesting development from Mozilla to attempt to fix IE's problems: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080819-mozilla-drags-ie-into-the-future-with-canvas-element-plugin.html