[cellarius]

I see - but that code does not originate from me - it's vB's own.

This is what's in my template:

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%" style="margin-bottom:3px; margin-top: 0;">
<tr valign="bottom">
    <td class="smallfont">&nbsp;</td>
    <if condition="$pagenav"><td align="$stylevar[right]">$pagenav</td></if>
</tr>
</table>

The td and link come from the pagenav template (right at the end), which is completely unchanged in my testboard:

    <if condition="$show['popups']"><td class="vbmenu_control" title="$address$address2"><a name="PageNav"></a></td></if>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

And the td looks just the same in standard vB paginations. This is from standard forumdisplay:

<td class="vbmenu_control" title="forumdisplay.php?f=21&amp;order=desc"><a name="PageNav"></a></td>

The drop-arrow image seems to be added by script, it is not by css (or at least not that I see). In AdminCP you find this

/* ***** basic styles for multi-page nav elements */
.pagenav a { text-decoration: none; }
.pagenav td { padding: 2px 4px 2px 4px; }

and that's all I could find for .pagenav a in the vB css-files, too.

The script that does pagination seems to be

<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js?v=380"></script>

which is properly called in the head of my popup.

I even am quite sure I have identified the part of code that adds the image, but why it doesn't show up escapes me