CB Ajax field works in IE, not safari or firefox

I've just installed the CB Ajax text field. I was able to create the field and publish it with no problems.

After submitting text into the text bubble and hitting submit, I go to a blank white page and the "loading..." notice in the tab goes forever. The page never comes back.

If I go back to the profile, the text submitted IS there so the data is getting submitted to the database before whatever error is occurring.

I'll check my error logs and report back what errors I find.

Running J! 1.0.15
Firefox 3.0.7
Mac OSX 1.5.6
Database Version: 5.0.45
PHP Version: 5.2.6
Web Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Fedora)
WebServer to PHP interface: apache2handler

Post edited by: mediaguru, at: 2009/03/23 05:37

Post edited by: mediaguru, at: 2009/03/23 14:55

Ok I've done some more testing on the new CB Ajax field.

On IE 7 the field works fine.

On Firefox after clicking submit the page goes blank and the "loading" tab with animated wheel spins forever.

On Safari (3.2.1) I hit submit and the page goes blank

Going back to the profile on firefox or safari the data is updated.

Post edited by: mediaguru, at: 2009/03/23 14:54

Update: I installed on a much more "simple" installation with CB and it does work in Firefox on that installation.

SO that must mean one of the following:

1. There's a problem with a conflicting plugin
2. There's a problem in the template?

I'll start disabling plugs and see if I get it to work.

SOLVED

I started disabling plugins and found one which was casing the problem. Naturally is was my own "what are you doing" plugin, or what I call "cbstatus"...

There was a piece of javascript code there for generating a current date:

[code:1]<script type="text/javascript">
var offset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60 * (-1);
document.write('<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="offset" VALUE="' + offset + '">');
</script>[/code:1]

I'd given up on using that code but it was still in the plugin. When I removed the code above, the ajax text field worked properly.

SO, why the .js conflict? Don't know.

Your code above writes into the DOM at display time, which is incompatible with modern javascript dom manipulations.

just output without document.write, e.g.:

<INPUT TYPE="hidden" class="mediaguruOffsetsToUpdate" NAME="offset" VALUE="">

then do a small jQuery magic, which will add the value after DOM is ready, something like:

[code:1]global $_CB_framework;
$_CB_framework->outputCbJQuery( '$(". mediaguruOffsetsToUpdate"«»).attr( 'value', Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60 * (-1) ):');
[/code:1]

didn't test code above, but it should be close to what you want.

Beat are you trying to get yourself banned for multi-posting?

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