Pepper Template Doing Strange Things...

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I have posted this in the help section too. Thankyou to everyone for making/maintaining pixelpost... Its excellent!

Problem: please visit my site to see as i'm having trouble explaining, but when I add a description of myself to the 'about' section of the pepper template, if it gets too long the whole template goes all weird. The extra lines of text i have entered don't show up, or show up down on the bottom under the template in the gray space... and the footer is moved around. suggestions??

http://www.fivefeet.ca/index.php?x=about

Thanx!

Jodi
www.fivefeet.ca

[turnover]

in your image_template you have this code :
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
/div>
</div>

</div>

<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

delete all code below the first </html>

[Connie]

I am 100% sure that this is a problem of the CSS which is used in the template.

please, do not doublepost!

[Jodi]

hmm.... when i open my templates up in textpad... there isn't the same problem with the duplication of the same code... thus, there is no code to delete below the first </html>. Thanks though!

Connie... sorry about the double post... didn't realise it was such a problem. So if the problem is 100% css... any suggestions on what to do about it? Perhaps some thoughts from the creator of this template?

Thanks for you help!

Jodi

[Joe[y]]

Replace this with :
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
/div>
</div>

</div>

<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

[Jodi]

hmm, I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding here... i'm going to post what the bottom of my 'about_template' looks like in textpad... as it looks different than when you view the source of it:
<h3>Technical Difficulties!!</h3>
What on earth is going on here? My page is all messed up....<br />
 </div>
</div>
</div>

</div>

<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Note... the site is even showing a line that i deleted in the template ("This part has been added to demonstrate to the forum people what seems to be happening." ) It used to say that, then i updated it with the 'what on earth is going on here?' statement.... which isn't even showing up. weird... i just don't get it...

Jodi

[Joe[y]]

so now you are saying it's not uploading your edits to the template file correctly?

[Connie]

I have one idea what could cause this double </BODY></HTML>

are you using a template with a header and a footer?

If so, the main template which contains the actual image, should not close with </BODY></HTML>!

please check this!

and I see an unclosed /div> there!

[Anonymous]

Thanks to everyone for their help. Turns out the problem was me... (isn't it usually!)

When editing the about_template.html in textpad I wasn't saving it as a unix file and that was causing the file that was uploaded to end up having all sorts of weird breaks in it. I don't fully understand, though my boyfriend who does seems to be able to explain it much better!

For now, it seems to be working fine, fingers crossed.

Thankyou all again...

Jodi
www.fivefeet.ca