v3.3 links aren't clickable

[annemy]

hello,
I have purchased and installed v3.3 and I am really happy:), but have a question. The links under categories, and resources on the left hand side of my website are not clickable. I am assuming that these should be???
Also on the right, Is the title of the article suppose to be clickable, to take you to the article?
Having not used the paid version before, I am not sure what could be wrong. I would appreciate your help.
my website is www.adult-hotlinks.com (http://www.adult-hotlinks.com)
thanks

[annemy]

I have noticed that the links are clickable if I go to the 'submit link' and 'contact' pages, but not in any of the others. At least I now know they are suppose to be clickable, which I figured they would. any help would be appreciated.

[bruleo]

It's more than likely a template issues and not with the script itself. Quickly check with the default professional template and if they work there, then it's definitely your template.

Bruce.

[murko]

the links in menu looks pretty clickable to me eventhough I had to explain to my wife very quick why I clicked on a "dating service link" =)

[annemy]

Hi bruleo,
Thanks for your suggestion. It actually did accure to me after I posted my question, that it may be the template. I did as you suggested, and yes, it works fine with the professional template. I search and see if there is a support thread about the template I am using , and re-ask my question there. Thanks again for your help.
It's more than likely a template issues and not with the script itself. Quickly check with the default professional template and if they work there, then it's definitely your template.

Bruce.

[annemy]

lol...and oops murko. Hope all is well with your wife. :o I hope she was understanding..lol
the links in the centre of the page are clickable, but on my computer, the links in the left hand column are not.
I am going to ask for help from the template author.
thanks...
the links in menu looks pretty clickable to me eventhough I had to explain to my wife very quick why I clicked on a "dating service link" =)

[bruleo]

Just a quick thing to look out for....

Sometimes, in certain browsers, when a div has been placed using relative or absolute positioning, you sometimes need to use additional an additional parameter in the css called 'z-index', as browsers often follow the strict flow of the html....

So if your menu div in position before another div was placed even slightly over the top, it 'could' cause disabling of some of the options (but only in some browsers!)

Assigning a z-index to the positioned divs, places a priority (or focus) on them.

A bit confusing, I know, but it sounds to me that's what this is and is in essence, a template coding error, which can sometimes be difficult to fix!

Bruce.

[murko]

That could make things LOOK different but not really disabling links?

Maybe if one div places OVER the other one, but not actually sure even that would make links unable to act as links, if the div above not compleatly hides the div under,,,,

Or am I missing something?

Just a quick thing to look out for....

Sometimes, in certain browsers, when a div has been placed using relative or absolute positioning, you sometimes need to use additional an additional parameter in the css called 'z-index', as browsers often follow the strict flow of the html....

So if your menu div in position before another div was placed even slightly over the top, it 'could' cause disabling of some of the options (but only in some browsers!)

Assigning a z-index to the positioned divs, places a priority (or focus) on them.

A bit confusing, I know, but it sounds to me that's what this is and is in essence, a template coding error, which can sometimes be difficult to fix!

Bruce.

[bruleo]

It can and it does! I had this exact problem with 1SDS when I first built it (the background for the slanting menu)... Just by changing the order at which the divs are placed and their focus will prevent it.

I originally had a div placing a background image for a container, AFTER the div for a menu above it. I had placed it slightly off and until I corrected it, the links did not click on part of the main page (category links) They displayed and the roll-overs worked, but could not click on them .As soon as I corrected the alignment and the z-index (and thats' ALL I did), the links worked. This was only in FF. IE worked fine as it was.

I have also come across this on two other sites (not mine).

Anyhow, I was only offering a tip to look out for.

EDIT: Just remembered that I also had a similar problem when building the menus for www.sportindexer.com (http://www.sportindexer.com). The menu dropdowns are essentially divs that are created first in the flow. When I first set it up, the menu links did not work (although they displayed), because the z-index was set lower than the divs of the rest of the page that were created later in the flow. Again, changing the value of z-index corrected it.



Bruce.

[murko]

huh, strange, but I do belive you bruleo, it wasnt me not beliving you =) I just figured it would "not showing" the one div completely, but thinking about it I get the picture!

I had similar issues, but not concerning links/or anything other clickable, but only hovering-issues, that actually made only the one hover work, and the one in a div under it actually not working. Guessing this actually is one and the same problem =)

My problem was on a small project with DHTML back in the day when I thought that it was cool building entire websites like that!