purchased template acting naughty.

happens in IE7 and IE8

[tonynoriega]

so im working on a purchased template for a customer of mine. (not my recommendation, and here is why).

the contact us form does not allow me to type in the input or textarea fields... only in IE, i can type in FF just fine... what the heck?

i dont see anything out of the ordinary in either the HTML or CSS.

here is the HTML

<div class="column1">
<div class="form"><input title="name" name="name" type="text" value="Name" /></div>
<div class="form"><input title="e-mail" name="e-mail" type="text" value="E-mail" /></div>
<div class="form"><input title="phone" name="phone" type="text" value="Phone" /></div>
</div>
<div class="column2">
<div><textarea name="textarea" cols="20" rows="20">Message</textarea></div>

here is the CSS

.form input {width:201px; height:19px; background:#fff; color:#22150d; padding-left:3px; border:1px solid #d4d0c8; border-top:1px solid #808080; border-left:1px solid #808080;}
textarea { width:329px; height:54px; background:#fff; overflow:auto; color:#22150d; padding-left:3px; border:1px solid #d4d0c8; margin-bottom:15px; border-top:1px solid #808080; border-left:1px solid #808080;}

[tonynoriega]

Ok, i found something with firebug ...

there is a maxheight.js file called from the page.

<script src="maxheight.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and then there are two classes that seem to call this function from the css.

<div class="col_2 maxheight">
<div class="box2 maxheight">
...form content in here...
</div>
</div>

i think the maxheight.js file is causing those div elements to become either hidden, or overlayed with something i can not see..

i know its alot but i think i should post this .js file.

is this causing my form to not be accessible via IE?

var ElementMaxHeight = function() {
this.initialize.apply(this, arguments);
}

ElementMaxHeight.prototype = {
initialize: function(className) {
this.elements = document.getElementsByClassName(className ¦¦ 'maxheight');
this.textElement = document.createElement('span');
this.textElement.appendChild(document.createTextNode('A'));
this.textElement.style.display = 'block';
this.textElement.style.position = 'absolute';
this.textElement.style.fontSize = '1em';
this.textElement.style.top = '-1000px';
this.textElement.style.left = '-1000px';
document.body.appendChild(this.textElement);
this.textElementHeight = document.getDimensions(this.textElement).height;
var __object = this;
var __checkFontSize = this.checkFontSize;
this.checkFontSizeInterval = window.setInterval(function() {return __checkFontSize.apply(__object)}, 500);

this.expand();

// Refresh elements height onResize event
var __expand = this.expand;
if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener('resize', function(event) {return __expand.apply(__object, [( event ¦¦ window.event)])}, false);
} else if (window.attachEvent) {
window.attachEvent('onresize', function(event) {return __expand.apply(__object, [( event ¦¦ window.event)])});
}
},

expand: function() {
this.reset();
for (var i = 0; i < this.elements.length; i++) {
this.elements[i].style.height = document.getDimensions(this.elements[i].parentNode).height + 'px';
}
},

reset: function() {
for (var i = 0; i < this.elements.length; i++) {
this.elements[i].style.height = 'auto';
}
},

checkFontSize: function() {
var height = document.getDimensions(this.textElement).height;
if(this.textElementHeight != height) {
this.textElementHeight = height;
this.expand();
}
}
}

if (!document.evaluate) {
document._getElementsByXPath = function(expression, parentElement) {
var results = [];
var query = document.evaluate(expression, parentElement ¦¦ document,
null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (var i = 0, length = query.snapshotLength; i < length; i++)
results.push(query.snapshotItem(i));
return results;
}
}

document.getElementsByClassName = function(className, parentElement) {
if (!document.evaluate) {
var q = ".//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' " + className + " ')]";
return document._getElementsByXPath(q, parentElement);
} else {
var children = (parentElement ¦¦ document.body).getElementsByTagName('*');
var elements = [], child;
for (var i = 0, length = children.length; i < length; i++) {
child = children[i];
if (child.className.length != 0 &&
(child.className == className ¦¦
child.className.match(new RegExp("(^¦\\s)" + className + "(\\s¦$)")))) {
elements.push(child);
}
}
return elements;
}
}

document.getDimensions = function (element) {
var display = element.style.display;
if (display != 'none' && display != null) { // Safari bug
return {width: element.offsetWidth, height: element.offsetHeight};
}

return {width: originalWidth, height: originalHeight};
}