comment frustration continues - firefox fails to link author
I’m still having trouble getting links to comment authors. Seeing as how links mean a lot in the web world, I feel that not linking up approved comments to their author’s site isn’t good practice. However, I’ve done everything I can think of to make this work.
Finally, I found a site stating that this is actually a problem only with firefox — IE users have been able to see these links all along. Great! Wait, not great! Who uses IE anyways — don’t answer that. I want my site to work with the browser of choice (my choice and should be yours too, but thats a topic for another forum).
It looks like it might be a css problem, but I haven’t been able to pin it down. But, I guess it isn’t a big deal and the links to other sites are there, firefox users just can’t click on them. Maybe someone will present a solution, or maybe I’ll just worry about more serious issues — like debt utilization and paying bills on time.
Nick
March 13th, 2007 09:37
I took a quick look because the problem rang a bell for someone with a comment layout like yours.
This might be a bit tricky to understand, but here goes. The problem is that the big comment number you see on the right hand side of each comment is spanning over your link. The link in there in Firefox; it’s just technically behind your comment number.
The proper fix would be to adjust the way the comment numbers display with some crazy z-indexing. But a much easier way would be to simply throw one or two forced line breaks (br) in your template between where it says [li class="commentbody" ...] and the first [a class="commentlink" ...]. I can’t show you here since Wordpress won’t let me post HTML like that, so shoot me an e-mail if you don’t understand where the brs should go.
Donna Jean
March 13th, 2007 10:07
you’re the awesome-est and that was the easiest fix ever — much simpler than the crazy stuff I was trying to do to make it work. thanks so much!