Category Display Problems & CSS

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euroluxantiques
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Category Display Problems & CSS

Post by euroluxantiques » Sat Jun 11, 2011 3:21 pm

I'm having the strangest problem with my store, and I've never seen it before. If you look at http://www.euroluxantiques.com/Antique- ... -C159.aspx and http://www.euroluxantiques.com/Antique- ... -C160.aspx, you will see that the theme in the CSS theme in the first category works fine, but it does not work for the 2nd category. Unfortunately, there are many categories where the theme does not work correctly, although ALL use the same theme and the same page definition, i.e., headers/footers/content, etc. The content I'm using is CategoryGridPage4. Has anyone seen this before? I've looked in the database itself and studied the HTML, and I don't see any differences. You would think if one displays correctly, all categories would. It may be that I've been looking at this too long, but I need a fresh set of eyes if anyone can help troubleshoot this. It's driving me a little crazy. Thanks!

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Re: Category Display Problems & CSS

Post by jmestep » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:46 am

You might have some bad html on the page where it doesn't work, like a tag not closed or something.
Try running it thru an html validator and a css validator or viewing the source of the page to see if there is something weird. If they are both using the same display components, it would have to be something in your product names or descriptions, etc.
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Re: Category Display Problems & CSS

Post by euroluxantiques » Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:34 am

I checked the HTML and CSS, and the errors for both are the same. It's impossible to get a 100% validation due to some scripts in the HTML and some hacks in the CSS for various browsers, but the errors are basically the same for both pages. There's something else going on, but I have no idea what it is.

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Re: Category Display Problems & CSS

Post by euroluxantiques » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:07 pm

I have identified the error pattern finally. It seems if the category has 15 catalognodes or less, it produces the display error, i.e., there is no pagination in the category display. All categories with more than 16 catalognodes work perfectly. Less than that, and forget it. At least I have something to go on now. Why it's doing this is another question, though.

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