Question for Nicholas Sherlock

James Lyall · January 14, 2014

Nicholas, I would like to call upon your expertise once again.
Last September, you may recall that I posted about a problem which I have with the behaviour of CSS on my site. You kindly contributed to that thread. You might also notice that I was not the only one to experience this behaviour. (Keith 'mklabove') See: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=240656

I copied your "Always show captions in lightbox" customisation to the CSS for my entire site. None of this worked until I stripped out all of the ".sm-user-ui" from the code. Having modified it in that way, I found that clicking on a button below the image in lightbox, the window (e.g. Info) which then opens, just hangs and cannot be closed. The only "work around" I could construct was to eliminate the button display with the following code:

.sm-nui .sm-lightbox .sm-lightbox-panel .sm-lightbox-tools .sm-lightbox-icons .sm-button {
display: none;
}

Whilst the site now works, I remain uneasy because the cause of the ".sm-user-ui" behaviour remains unresolved.
When you have a moment, I should very much value your input.

(BTW, I am now using your SmugMug backup program in Chrome. Quite brilliant, your skill seems to know no bounds!)

thenickdude · January 15, 2014

James, it continues to baffle me that your website is missing the "sm-user-ui" class on the <html> tag. I cannot imagine the bug that would lead to that happening. Unless, are you a customer of one of those official SmugMug customisation companies? They might flip some weird switch on your website that could cause that as a side-effect. If you're not, I would definitely recommend asking SmugMug's support team about it.

I think your issues with the Info window are probably because you're using an earlier version of my customisation before I had found and fixed that problem. Try adding this code to the end of CSS:

/* Make sure that doesn't end up overlaying floating dialogs like the comment box */
	.sm-lightbox + .yui3-widget-modal {
		z-index:3 !important;
	}

James Lyall · January 15, 2014

Lamah wrote: »

Unless, are you a customer of one of those official SmugMug customisation companies?

No, I am pure 'vanilla' SmugMug since I joined - long before the New SmugMug was launched last year.

I would definitely recommend asking SmugMug's support team about it.

Thanks, that is certainly worth pursuing and I shall do so.

I think your issues with the Info window are probably because you're using an earlier version of my customisation before I had found and fixed that problem.

No, I am using your latest version.

Try adding this code to the end of CSS:

Tried that, but it made no difference.

I am most grateful to you for your input.
Best wishes

James Lyall · January 15, 2014

Lamah wrote: »

Try adding this code to the end of CSS:

Nicholas,
After a bit more fiddling with the CSS, your new code does the trick!
Why it did not do so before, I have no idea.
Anyway, thank you very much for making it all work for me.
(I shall get onto the Support Team nevertheless).

rainforest1155 · January 15, 2014

Check out my post on this thread for a possible explanation.

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