dw_styles | Bug report: Nouveau Oleanders, Firefox, and non-working cut tugs

There is apparently an obscure bug--in Firefox, expandable cut tags aren't working on Nouveau Oleanders...because of the styling of the first letter of the entry's contents. People are working on a fix, but in the meantime, if you don't want to change to another style, there's a rather over-the-top but workable fix.

First, look at the source of your journal layout. You're going to want to copy everything between <style type="text/css"> and </style> (which will all be in the <head> section of the source) into custom CSS. Then, you're going to want to find the :first-letter styling...and remove it! It looks like this:

.entry-content:first-letter { font-size: x-large;
    font-style: italic; }

After you've entered it, uncheck "Use layout's stylesheet(s)" and save. If you've done this correctly, expandable cut tags should work. If you want to tinker around with this bug, and figure out a way to make them work by overriding previous CSS instead of replacing it entirely without the offending part, let us know the results--I tried a simple "inherit" for both those properties instead, and it didn't work.

If you have problems, you can always put things back the way they were by deleting all Custom CSS (except what you had before) and rechecking "Use layout's stylesheet(s)" and saving.

If you need more help or have suggestions, feel free to comment to this entry.

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Psst! Nouveau Oleanders.

Oh dear, fixed!

:) Feel free to screen these BTW.

Just in case no one has noticed, expandable cut tags work fine provided there is no text before the cut-tag. I guess that's related to the lack of special first letter.

Yeah, it's noted in the bug about that, and you're correct about the cause--thanks for the heads up here though, I totally forgot to mention that. What a weird glitch!

Hey a bit off-topic, don't know if this has been reported (can you point me to where I can check these things?), but if you have the video placeholder on by default, and you expand the cut tag to find a video in there, when you click on the placeholder nothing happens, no video. Only on the placeholders inside an expanded cut. Happens in different layouts, using Firefox, if that could have any impact.

Edit: sorry, just realised this is styles, in totally the wrong place, sorry :/ Where do I go?

Edited 2010-06-11 23:20 (UTC)

It's just fine to talk about it! Okay, so, there's a couple places you might want to check:

The known issues box
Current requests up on the support board
The Bugzilla install, if you're comfortable on Bugzillas; there's a short guide here with links to different bug searches

If you don't see it in Known Issues or on the Support Board, make sure to file a request in Support about it!

Thank you for answering my support request and for posting up a fix! I'm kind of attached to the Nouveau Oleanders style, so I'll just try this out. :)

Ok, I, er, appear to have spoken too soon. Regarding getting the journal source layout, is that through View -> Page Source in the Firefox browser, or is there another way? I just tried to do this and I broke the style instead. I'm probably missing something really obvious. Sorry for bothering you again, but any help would be much appreciated!

Okay, so, I made a pastebin of the CSS you'll need:

http://css.pastebin.com/141z5tXM

Try it out!

Hooray, it worked! Thank you so much! :D

Thanks! Support request raised, and all those links nicely saved in my links list for future reference. Thanks again.

Bug report: Nouveau Oleanders, Firefox, and non-working cut tugs

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