I'm putting out a request out to see if one of our readers can help us. We've been getting reports of a bug that only seems to happen with IE on a PC, but it's not something that I can fix easily (all Mac, all the time, work and home)
It can best be described as this:
- When someone is on the home page and clicks anywhere on the page, it scrolls down to focus on the field where you can subscribe via email.
- When someone is on an individual story page (accessed via a permalink) and does the same thing, it scrolls down to focus on the place where commenters add their email address.
It's probably a quick fix, and may have resulted in one of my ham-handed "upgrades" but it's going to take a smarter man than me to figure out what the problem is. So, any code gurus out there? I'll send a free YBNBY T shirt (or for that matter any T shirt of your choice in our store) to the first person who can solve this in our comments.
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When clicking on the LABEL for an input field, the curser is moved into the field.
The LABEL tag, in the "YesButEmail" DIV, is not closed after "Enter your address to have YBNBY stories emailed to you daily."
So, everything appearing in the code AFTER the first LABEL tag is considered a LABEL. With the LABEL unclosed, clicking on anything (except a link) will force the curser into the input field with the ID "email."
As for the pages to read a full article, both Email Address Fields have the same ID, so even though the LABEL tag for the "name_email" DIV email address field is closed properly, that unclosed tag in the other DIV will move the user to any field with the ID "email". In this case, the field appearing closest to the top.
Closing the tag on any pages where you have the "YesButEmail" DIV should take care of the problem.
P.S. I really enjoy your site, so no thanks needed.
Force your users to switch to Firefox?
I made the change in the templates - it should migrate across the site when it rebuilds at 3am EST, so check back tomorrow and let me know if it worked. Or just look at this page, which should rebuild when I post this comment.
If it does, Kyle is our new hero.
Yes; it seems to have worked!
I am the sadclicker no more. It appears to have also fixed the inability to copy anything on the page. Thumbs up to Kyle.
Yay for Kyle! Our new hero!
thanks so much! i have a habit of clicking while i read...now i don't have to remember not to do that on this site.
When do the job offers start rolling in for Kyle?