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.CSS theme not working in IE

SS shawn soden
shawn soden
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.CSS theme is not working correctly in Internet Explorer. I have had this complaint issued from users on my website who use that browser. I tested it with my IE and confirmed that links are not working correctly in IE, but work fine in other browsers.

My version of IE is: IE 11

Here is an example: http://sodenbowl.com/website/forum-2/join-league-cl/

Try to click the next link on the page to move into that forum and it will not do anything “Join Here: Open Teams”.

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BR Brandon
Brandon
Member

I cannot duplicate the issue using IE 11. All the links seem to work for me. Is the complaint from multiple users or just one?

SS shawn soden
shawn soden
Member

Multiple users, 4 users not including myself all from different locations and the same issue. 

SS shawn soden
shawn soden
Member

You must be logged in, when logged out the link works.

I created a test account for you with basic access.

Login: Test User

Pass: test123

A lot of the links do not work when logged in, but work fine, logged out.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

any link I tried worked fine in IE 11… perhaps you can be more specific about which link and what the url is of the link…

does it also occur if you temp switch to the default wp theme?  if its not occurring for you though, that might be hard…

SS shawn soden
shawn soden
Member

Yes, I do not use IE, I use Google Chrome – So I did not pick up on this until people started complaining. 

One link that I see acting up is off the main forums, under Custom League, the sub forum “Join League” can not be selected. When you mouse over it, it displays the proper link for a brief second, then just the pop-up is displayed.

SS shawn soden
shawn soden
Member

Has to be a .CSS issue… Original theme works, your forum here works with no issue, yet the .CSS Theme is the issue.

BR Brandon
Brandon
Member

This looks to be the issue with IE10/11 and vTips.

Vtips is the fancy box that is displayed when you roll over a link in the forum. We have found that IE 10/11 has a problem with it in certain circumstances depending on how the WP theme is setup.

A quick way to confirm this is to turn them off temporarily. To do that you would go to Forum Admin > Edit Themes and select the spFunctions.php file.

Find this:

# A small javascript routine has been used to replace standard browser tooltips with
# more appealing graphics. You can turn this off by setting SP_TOOLTIPS to false.

define(‘SP_TOOLTIPS’, true);

Change it to false and see if that fixes the issue.

If it does but you want to keep the vTips working there may be a way via CSS that will take care of it.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

Ah, explains why I didn’t see it… Requires Windows 8 too and I have Windows 7….

Thanks for the update…