[Forum issue] Broken forum layout

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28. November 2013 - 11:24

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Hi guys, when watching this topic "Your best mouse" at page 7, it seems that the forum layout is broken. It's not at other pages or threats that i have noticed. Mabye it is at other pages aswel (randomly).

The image shows that the right sidebar is moved below at the forum layout.

Tested with: IE 10, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome

Here a screenshot of the broken page:

Just want to share this issue, so you guys can fix it

Kind regards,
N!X

www.sexyfraggers.net

28. November 2013 - 13:19

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Re: [Forum issue] Broken forum layout

Ive seen this issue before. It happens because someone in some post on that page has an additional [/quote] or [/something] which the parser turns into a </sometag> that closes one of the layout's tags. The browser then tries to guess how to give a sense to all the mess by adding the missing tags for the additional close tags. When the page rendering happens the right side bar is moved to the bottom (after the last post), because the CSS now considers the right sidebar alike any other post.

The fix would mean to update the parser to not close tags that don't exist in the post. Something that isn't so easy to do. The manual way to fix it, and much faster is for someone to recheck all the posts by edit -> disable rich-text and delete those additional [/quote] . That's what i used to do.

It also can happen if the "issue" is in some1's signature. Happen before.
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2. December 2013 - 15:38

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Re: [Forum issue] Broken forum layout

wrote:

Ive seen this issue before. It happens because someone in some post on that page has an additional [/quote] or [/something] which the parser turns into a </sometag> that closes one of the layout's tags. The browser then tries to guess how to give a sense to all the mess by adding the missing tags for the additional close tags. When the page rendering happens the right side bar is moved to the bottom (after the last post), because the CSS now considers the right sidebar alike any other post.

The fix would mean to update the parser to not close tags that don't exist in the post. Something that isn't so easy to do. The manual way to fix it, and much faster is for someone to recheck all the posts by edit -> disable rich-text and delete those additional [/quote] . That's what i used to do.

It also can happen if the "issue" is in some1's signature. Happen before.
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epsinoob