Holy Floating TextAreas Batman!

[eob]

http://www.octane.ie/cult/gallery/displayimage.php?album=9&pos=0

I've flicked extensively through as much Coppermine CSS/Template code as possible and I still can't figure out why my 'Comments' textarea is floating in the middle of nowhere. Anyone?

PS. Sorry for annoying Nibbler earlier, bad day for eob...

[Nibbler]

I don't see a comment box. If commenting is for registered users only then you need to provide a user account with which we can test or allow anonymous commenting.

[eob]

I'll need sedating after this too 

I've switched on commenting for unreg'd users for the moment, check it out

[eob]

All fixed, it was borrowing code from elsewhere in an external CSS file Thanks for your help Nibbler *tips hat*, this stuff is way better than a.n/other gallery software

[Joachim Müller]

The definition for #message in http://www.octane.ie/css/blue.css is to blame:

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#message {
position: absolute;
visibility: visible;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -240px;
border: 1px solid #000;
width: 400px;
background-color: #ededed;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left middle;
padding: 24px;
padding-left: 95px;
top: 200px;
}Review your absolute positioning properties. If you apply custom styles, you should know what they do. This isn't related to coppermine at all, but the issues you introduced yourself.
On the other thread you did not only behave rudely against Nibbler, but the whole community. Coming back and doing as if nothing happened is not enough imo.

[eob]

It's generally accepted that with 3rd party scripts, they'll be installed on a site which already has bundled CSS code. Therefore, it's often customary to prefix all the CSS code within a third party script, eg. .coppermine_message {} etc.

Secondly, I wouldn't be here if I didn't like Coppermine, but that doesn't mean I'm going to sit here and grin endlessly and pat everyone on the back. Coppermine is great, but it can be much, much better. In particular, if the next release of CoppermineNG had complete, instant, and easy integration with VBulletin including borrowing from VBulletins themes, the software would absolutely wipe the board of all the other galleries out there. But not when it's so tricky to get right.

Anyway, opinions on my install
http://www.octane.ie/cult/gallery/

[Nibbler]

I can tell you are a fan of VBulletin, but it is proprietary software. Nobody on the dev team has a license afaik which makes integration development nearly impossible and it is illegal to 'borrow' anything from it as you suggest.

[Joachim Müller]

Coppermine is great, but it can be much, much better.

OK, let's see your contributions then - in another thread. Coppermine is a cimmunity effort - if you think that you can contribute in any way, do so.

In particular, if the next release of CoppermineNG had complete, instant, and easy integration with VBulletin including borrowing from VBulletins themes, the software would absolutely wipe the board of all the other galleries out there.

As Nibbler suggested: definitely not, we're not going to turn Coppermine a promotion tool for a proprietary app. Tailoring it to perfectly fit for one app would mean losing support for all other apps Coppermine can be bridged with.
Coppermine's theming engine is suppossed to be flexible. This doesn't automatically mean it's suppossed to be newbie-proof, nor tailor-made to fit vB.

Anyway, opinions on my install
http://www.octane.ie/cult/gallery/

Belongs into the showoff thread "share your galleries" - you have already posted there.
Respect the "one question per thread" policy you agreed to respect when signing up. Your initial question has been solved. Locking.