Navbar Dropdowns Disappeared After Mods

[sublo]

Hi all.

This is my first time running VB after a few years and I'm obviously a bit rusty. I have this problem after making a few mods like (1) vBadvanced CMPS (2) installing a black/gold style and (3) installing Cyb Donate.

The drop-downs from the Nav bar like the Search Box and Quick Links are gone. I tried comparing the Style Navbar before/after versions but can't pinpoint what happened.

Here's my site: http://www.KawasakiW.com

Can anyone offer me any advice?

Much appreciated. Thanks.

[Lynne]

Try a new default style and see if they work. If so, then the problem is your style.

Try disabling ALL your modifications and see if they work. If so, then the problem is your mods.

[sublo]

Thanks. I tried disabling all addins/products. That consists of: CMPS, Cyb Pay Pal Donate, and PassivVid. I also disabled the add-on Styles and went back to default. I verified that that code is actually being output to the browser for the drop-downs and it is. The problem still exists unfortunately in every browser I've tried [head scratch].

I've run a few pages through an html verifier http://validator.w3.org and just about every page comes up with errors like end tag for element "tbody" which is not open.

I'm tempted to wipe everything out and start from scratch again but I really don't want to do that.


--------------- Added [DATE]1287410778[/DATE] at [TIME]1287410778[/TIME] ---------------

I take that one thing back... in the source, that code is not being output back to the browser.

[Lynne]

If you have a totally default style running with no mods, you should not be getting any error about an end tag that isn't open.

[sublo]

OK. I fixed this after 2 days of pulling my hair (err... I'm bald) out! For some reason, in AdminCP > Style Style&Language Settings, this setting "Use 'vBMenu' DHTML Popup Menus?" set to "Yes" was not taking. I manually edited forums/global.php and made the change below:

Old
$vbulletin->options['usepopups'] = 0;

New
$vbulletin->options['usepopups'] = 1;

Don't know why this would not take effect from the front-end. Oh well.

[Lynne]

If changing vboptions is not taking affect, then you should look into why this is. Options get input into the datastore table - are they getting changed there? And are you using any sort of caching? And do you have something in your config.php file regarding what caching method you are using?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by sublo

OK. I fixed this after 2 days of pulling my hair (err... I'm bald) out! For some reason, in AdminCP > Style Style&Language Settings, this setting "Use 'vBMenu' DHTML Popup Menus?" set to "Yes" was not taking. I manually edited forums/global.php and made the change below:

Old
$vbulletin->options['usepopups'] = 0;

New
$vbulletin->options['usepopups'] = 1;

Don't know why this would not take effect from the front-end. Oh well.

This is going to be a problem for people who can't use popups, such as in javascript is off or maybe mobile browsers... you should double check your site using firefox with the script-block add-on (or turning off js in any browser) and seeing if you can still get basic functionality.

[sublo]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

This is going to be a problem for people who can't use popups, such as in javascript is off or maybe mobile browsers... you should double check your site using firefox with the script-block add-on (or turning off js in any browser) and seeing if you can still get basic functionality.

Nope, it won't. With Javascript disabled, you simply get the standard navbar. If the browser won't support it, popups aren't displayed. No issues.

[BirdOPrey5]

^ Good to know.