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Something I keep forgetting to post

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 03:47am on 2003-08-28

I've noticed that at least one journal style available in LiveJournal makes it impossible for me to post comments. I can get to the Post Comment page and type in my comment, but there's no submit button! I haven't taken the source apart yet, but I suspect that it's doing some funky JavaScript thing instead of just coding the form in HTML the way the other styles do. (I surf with JavaScript turned off.) Thing is, I can't leave a comment on those users' journals telling them I can't leave comments...

I guess I need to go through the LJ styles available to figure out which one those folks are using, and complain to LJ support about the problem, since the only thing the individual users can probably do is change styles entirely, right? What would be better would be to fix the style for everyone.

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have you tried this?

posted by [identity profile] daktaklakpak.livejournal.com at 04:33am on 2003-08-28
How about adding them to your friends list at least temporarily - that way you can see their entries in whatever style you use for your friends list, which should allow you to post a comment. At least I think it would work - I've never encountered the problem, so I can't test it...

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Re: have you tried this?

posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:08pm on 2003-08-28
They're already on my friends list, so I see their posts in the style I've chosen for my friends list, but when I try to read comments or post a comment, the entry is displayed in the style they've chosen for their journal.

First, I found the FAQ that says I can manually add "&s2id=1" to the end of the post-comment URL to force it to be displayed in a "generic" style. *whew* An annoyance, but a workaround.

Second, earlier today I hit another user's journal in the same style from a different machine with a different sized browser window, and the corner of the submit button was peeking out from under the text-input field for the comment! So the button isn't missing, it's covered up because it's placed in the wrong spot on the screen. (Now to see whether I can make sense of the code to figure out why it's being stuck in the wrong place.)

I had the same problem leaving a comment to an article on Other Magazine's (http://www.othermag.org) web site. I wonder whether it's for the same reason.
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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 06:25am on 2003-08-28
See if it's still a problem later today--a lot of new code went live overnight, and they're still ironing out some bugs.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 02:10pm on 2003-08-28
Will do. Thanks for the heads-up (I don't check the news-about-LJ journals as often as I ought).

Also, I found an additional clue (as described in my response to [livejournal.com profile] daktaklakpak's comment).
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