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  Posted: Mar 13, 2004 - 05:31 PM

  I have created my own theme and noticed that my "Footer" messages text field in Administration/Settings has suddenly disappeared!
  
  How could this happen? Could it be because I am setting my text fields to display at 50% instead of 100? When I had them set at 100% the center block was too large. I didn't make my theme able to stretch because I was having too many problems with my header images - this is my first custom theme, still have lots to learn.
  
  Could someone take a look and tell me if you see the same problem?
  
  I'm working on a Mac testing in IE 5.2, Safari, and NN (latest version).
  
  The URL to test is at http://vermillien.com/html/index.php if you want to take a look at the theme as a user.
  
  Thanks

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 06:22 PM

  Try adding this near the bottom of your theme.html file.
  Right above the tag.
  
  

  Code

  <center>
  
   <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
     <tr>
       <td width="100%"><p align="center"><!-- [footer-msg] --></td>
     </tr>
   </table>
  
  </center>

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 07:41 PM

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  Try adding this near the bottom of your theme.html file.
  Right above the tag.

  
  
  you're assuming his theme is for AutoTheme which he never stated...
  
  Vermillian> you said the text area in the Administration>Settings page for the footer message is missing, but is the footer itself missing as well or just the input area in the Admin module?

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 07:57 PM

  ahksijen

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  Try adding this near the bottom of your theme.html file.
  Right above the tag.

  
  
  You're assuming his theme is for AutoTheme which he never stated...

  
  
  You are assuming that I was assuming when in fact I looked at his page source and there where references to AutoTheme .7

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 08:02 PM

  well a) AutoTheme wasn't stated in his original post b) I don't make a habit of checking source on every page that is posted with problems, and c) none of it really matters LOL. his footer displays, it's the input field on the admin page that's missing...

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 08:04 PM

  vermillian,
  I don't have an answer to your question but I wanted to tell you that I really like your theme. Besides being partial to butterflies and the color purple, I think it is a very nice theme. One comment though is maybe you could use a dark greay instead of black for the text for the blocks. Black on purple looks good but a little difficult to read. Great job on your theme!

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 08:18 PM

  ahksijen

  c) none of it really matters LOL. his footer displays, it's the input field on the admin page that's missing...

  
  
  I read it that way too, but felt he meant that he was missing the output of the field. If you look at both the source and the page you can see that his footer is currently hard-coded. That would further one to believe he's was referring to the output of the admin|settings|footer field and not a missing text input field. Perhaps we'll never know.

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  Posted: Mar 16, 2004 - 08:25 PM

  well if he's missing the output, then your code snippet will resolve that with AutoTheme... if it's the input field he's missing, I have no idea how to fix that or why it would even be affected by AutoTheme...
  
  perhaps he hard-coded the footer as a solution since he can't SEE the input field to make modifications as normal
  
  
  
  Vermillian> please check to make sure that in AutoTheme's administration panel, under your theme, you have "AdminPages" listed as a Custom Module, and set it to use a different theme.html (ie theme2.html or something) without the TextArea modifications... that might resolve your issues with the admin modules

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  Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 02:13 AM

  Sorry for the stir! Next time I will be more clear with my posts.
  
  I am using AT Lite (Auto Theme) and the footer message is still visible in the footer. I cannot see the text area field in the Administration / Settings to change it anymore.
  
  JMEDODD: Thanks for the comments. I am actually trying to fix the text problem with the boxes (another post in this forum/third party modules area). Last night I almost gave up on the boxes for a lighter color. Thanks for posting your thoughts though... right on track!

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  Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 03:49 AM

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  Vermillian> please check to make sure that in AutoTheme's administration panel, under your theme, you have "AdminPages" listed as a Custom Module, and set it to use a different theme.html (ie theme2.html or something) without the TextArea modifications... that might resolve your issues with the admin modules

  
  
  that's about the only thing I could think of that would affect your textareas in the admin pages, is that you are applying your theme to them as well... adding "AdminPages" to the custom modules list in AutoTheme and applying a different style sheet to them with different textarea properties might fix the issue
  
  aside from that I have no ideas lol

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  Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 04:19 AM

  I did add admin.html to my custom theme, and it's calling my theme's stylesheet. Did that because I was having problems with the text fields being too large. You're right though, there is some sort of problem there. I will remove the link to my stylesheet and see if that fixes the problem. Weird though, since I only changed it to display at 80%, didn't think it would cause major shrinkage! *I DO see the scrollbar for it there.
  
  Thanks for your help. Will post again after I test out your idea, in case anyone else needs this info.

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  Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 04:25 AM

  actually if you add: "AdminPages" to the AutoTheme custom modules list (not a specific filename) it will apply that "custom module theme" to all the pages in the admin module
  
  I'd do that, then set AdminPages to use link a new CSS named admin.css and have admin.css be very basic, with only the minimal amount of formatting information... the administration module doesn't need to be very pretty, nobody sees it but you and your admins, it needs to be functional, and missing textareas are definitely not functional lolol

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