Styles pulldown won't show

This is probably a stupid thing but whenever I try to show the 'Style' element in the menu bar, it won't go. I've tried with the original fckstyles.xml file. The weird thing is that when I go to the demo on fckeditor.net, the styles pulldown works fine! So, is there something else than the base path I should be checking in fckconfig.js to make the styles pulldown appear? Everything else works fine une the toolbars... Thanks!

Mon, 11/28/2005 - 07:04

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Styles pulldown won't show

the file path is set like this:
FCKConfig.StylesXmlPath = FCKConfig.EditorPath + 'fckstyles.xml' ;

Did you check your server logs to see if it is asking for a different path instead of the one you want?
Do you have any javascript errors?

Mon, 11/28/2005 - 07:30

merlin9876543

Joined: 30/11/2005

Posts: 14

RE: Styles pulldown won't show

Thanks for the answer. I'm not using PHP to generate the editor, just plain Javascript. So I guess there isn't any logging done? And, oops, yes I had a Javascript error when trying to instanciate :

Error: this.DOMDocument has no properties
Source File: http://www.imagestion.com/admin/FCKedit ... gecko_2.js
Line: 22

This is of course in Firefox. When using IE, I get the styles pulldown but it's empty. No Javascript errors showing in IE. Thanks again!

Mon, 11/28/2005 - 07:52

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

RE: Styles pulldown won't show

If you are running the files from a server then the server for sure it's logging every file access and 404 errors that happen there, no matter if you generate the page by PHP, plain JS or anything.

The error line isn't very useful as you are using the packaged sources so each line it's very long and it's hard to know where did that code came from. You can use the normal sources calling the page with an extra parameter:
?fcksource=true

and then you can try to find where does it fail.

Mon, 11/28/2005 - 07:56

merlin9876543

Joined: 30/11/2005

Posts: 14

RE: Styles pulldown won't show

I guess I'll do that thanks. I think I'll do a clean reinstall and just change the base path to see if it works or not. As for server logs, I'm not sure I have access to those (shared hosting). I'll check that out too. Thanks!

Mon, 11/28/2005 - 10:04

merlin9876543

Joined: 30/11/2005

Posts: 14

RE: Styles pulldown won't show

Well, I did a clean install without modifying any files and it still gave the javascript error. Since I haven't managed to use the "?fcksource=true" option, I manually replaced the "fckeditorcode_gecko_2.js " with it's source file and the javascript error is gone? And, guess what? The Style pulldown still doesn't show in either IE or Firefox... I'm not sure what's happening. The only thing I could see is that I'm using a multiple website web space and the real root is something like "mysite.com/" (if I did a PHP document_root, it would be something like "/home/www" even though I'd need to use a real path of "/home/www/mysite.com").

This is really upsetting since it works fine on the demo site. I'm not sure why it would have to do with paths since I create the editor from javascript and javascript doesn't access a true path??? Any help highly appreciated. Meanwhile, I think I'll try installing it on another server just to see if it works. If it does, it's a path issue I guess. Thanks for any help!

Mon, 11/28/2005 - 11:57

merlin9876543

Joined: 30/11/2005

Posts: 14

Follow up

So, I tried installing a clean FCKeditor on another web server and it half worked. I got IE 6 to show the Style pulldown populated with the styles from fckstyles.xml but Firefox is still frozen. It seems it can't do a complete load of the parts of FCKeditor (the message on the status bar never shows "Done"). So any ideas on what's going on? If not, I'm in for several hours worth of debugging (less than that I hope...).