Hi,
There seems to be a problem with the dialogs in ie7 and ie8.
I tried to fix it with the z-index, but it is not enough. For when the dialog-box is on top, the field disappear. When clicking on the tabs all or some fields popup again. By hovering over some fields again disappear. The fields keep coming and going when something is changed.
Maybe this could be easily fixed if the background-cover (lightbox) -div is created before the dialog. Then it would not only depend on the z-index.
I wish I could fix it myself, but the javascript is to big to make some changes and not knowing what the impact is.
We upgraded to the latest version. But that didnot help.
Please helpppppp. Our customers are complaining about it, cause they cannot create links or images. My collegues want me to go back to version 2. I hope I dont need to.
Greetz, Lydia
Sat, 09/04/2010 - 01:06
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Re: help: dialogs disabled in ie
Hi Lydia,
If you are using your own customised skin for CKEditor, I suggest that you use Internet Explorer's developer's toolbar to debug it.
Much of the styling of the editor is created using in line CSS style selectors, which is bad IMO but at the very least, each skin has style sheets which take care of most of the rest of the styling.
I'm assuming that this is a skin which you have edited? If so, fixing it involves basic CSS.
It would be interesting to know if the problem you describe is occurring on the CKEditor demo page? I'm guessing not.
If the demo is broken for you, file a bug report.
You can try using a different skin for the editor because style sheets in each skin style the dialogs.
Thanks,
Zanpakutō
Re: help: dialogs disabled in ie
Thanks for your reply.
We use the default skin and it is inside Drupal. There could be a conflict between the drupal-styles or our own styles.
I did use firebug and ie dev-toolbar.
That's how i found the problem with the z-index. IE uses the z-index different then other. It looks first to the parent-tag.
This is the reason that it is not working.
I have no time to report a bug.
And I am a bit disappointed that an editor which is online for years now, has this type of bugs. So we will first look for an other editor. We cant have our clients waiting
Z-index is a really old and known issue. The first simple solution is: the lightbox-div should be before the dialogbox, then z-index is not needed to fix it.......
Seeing how much nested tags are used to make something like a field in a dialog, is really bad and unneeded. Span-tags are used as div-tags. etc. Tables used for layout..... It is really bad programming.
Inline css is not done in these days anymore.
So i am really disappointed in the way this nice editor is build.
Sorry, greetz, Lydia
Re: help: dialogs disabled in ie
Then you shouldn't expect anyone to fix this problem (if it's really a problem) ever.