In FF it looks really nice, but in IE I also see this band, but also each line is out of controll..

Maybe you should check the style. This could give you some pointers what to edit :)

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

If you have a difference in showing it with IE en FF, then these are mosttimes problems with compliance to standards.

Checked out your dialog:
Your start tag of the div has no ending bracket ( > ) and just before this starting div tag you should insert the missing tags.

Oops. I must have accidentally deleted that closing > when playing around with various options, such as using the png image that produces the blue background gradient. I was trying to avoid the junction of the blue background color I've chosen against the style gradient behind it. You see that junction depending on the number of users online. Thanks for pointing out my omission. I also followed your advice to add the missing tags.

I've now looked at the pop-up with both FF and IE v8 on the PC and it looks right. On my Mac, which I normally use, it is fine in all browsers except IE. The zen-ocean theme doesn't render properly on IE on the Mac but that browser is so old nobody should use it. Even the MS site itself doesn't render on IE for the Mac.

The ideal solution to this problem would be to stipulate a different style for the pop-up windows. The opening html and head tags, and the enclosed link tags, are apparently generated somewhere else. I don't know if it would be possible to insert code to use a different style for these windows. What would be nice in a future version of XOOPS would be the ability to select the style for pop-ups in prefs.

Now a personal comment and question. By profession I am a veterinary pathologist and research scientist, recently retired. I have managed the aka.org site since its inception, about 13 years ago but I have minimal programming skills. I'd really like to learn to do some php/mySQL programming. I have in mind a module for our site that would manage nomenclatural and bibliographic data. My question is, do you guys have any suggestions as where to start?

barryC

Personally I like these documents about module building.

theCat's 2004 tutorial

Kaotik's tutorials

And still use a lot the examples in these pages

W3Schools php tutorial

Php website

But also this could be good

Mamba's book list

But ask questions and just play around with the code to see how it's working. In a testing enviroment of course :)

Quote:Did you have had a look at the Lexikon - Lexique modules?

I haven't. Can you tell me where to get it? I can't find it in the XOOPS modules area and the search function on the XOOPS site is broken at the moment. No text box appears under Search.

barryC

Use /search.php or http://www.babylonbyxoops.net

Thanks. I did use search.php directly and found reference to the modules and where I could download them in the forums. Now I'll take a look at them.

barryC