OK, just installed a copy of phpBB2 on my server, have been tweaking it all up and everything. The only problems I have that I need answers to are the following : 1) I have specified in the CSS file that I want the forum to have a fixed width of 850px, and margin: auto for centering it. The problem here is that while it works perfectly in firefox, IE doesn't seem to read this part of the code as it is still a liquid, full-width forum in IE. Any ideas of a way around this? 2) I embedded a SWF file above the main menu in the 'overall_header.tpl' file, and again this works perfectly in Firefox but in IE it doesn't show at all. Any ideas, anybody? I will be very grateful if anyone could show me what i'm doing wrong Thanks! Davey.
Well for the SWF thing, if you used the embed tag, it won't work on Internet Explorer, you have to use the object tag for it.
Hey Dancom, I just checked and it's actually the object code : <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="468" height="60"> <param name="movie" value="images/banner.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <embed src="http://www.memvis.com/phpBB2/templates/subSilver/images/banner.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="468" height="60"></embed> </object> Code (markup): I'm still clueless really
I see your SWF problem now. In IE it's trying to go to http://www.memvis.com/phpBB2/images/banner.swf Which is incorrect, therefor it doesn't show anything. But in FF it goes to http://www.memvis.com/phpBB2/templates/subSilver/images/banner.swf So just replace what you have now with And for your width thing. Try putting everything that's inside <body> and before </body> In here.
Thanks mate Got the SWF working now! Not sure how to follow your other advice as the width part actually is in the CSS file for the forum, in the 'body' tag.