Why is my styling not taking effect?

Hello,

Zen Cart 1.3.9h

Database Patch Level: 1.3.9h

I've setup a new product, which is pulling in an iFrame. I've applied some styling to the iFrame to remove the border. But this change is not taking effect.

I suspect there is some caching going on somewhere. My configure.php has the following settings as follows:

define('SQL_CACHE_METHOD', 'database');
define('DIR_FS_SQL_CACHE', '/usr/local/xxx/xxxxx/xxxxxx/xxxxxxx/httpdocs/cache');

I've tried setting the SQL_CACHE_METHOD to 'none' but this did not make any difference.

I've looking at this for awhile, any help appreciated ?

Regards,
Stephen

Out-of-the-box Zen Cart doesn't do any caching that would affect the symptoms you describe.

So it's more likely that your problems are a result of not applying styling correctly, not applying it in the right file, not uploading the file to the server successfully, or you've installed addons which change the normal operation and they're interfering with things and causing unexpected results.

Thanks for the reply, I should probably clarify a bit.

I've setup a new product and in the description I pasted the following code into the editor ( Source view ):

The iframe was works with no issues, but I added the following property frameborder="0", which should remove the border. But when I save my changes, they do not take effect.

I know this value is correct as I've tested in firebug, manually typing it in.

We are taking over development of this site and it is possible that there are addons which could be causing the problem.

It is more likely to be a browser cache problem. Did you already try to empty the cache of your web browser?
The Zen Cart cache method has nothing to do with it.

yes, tried that. It was the first thing I tried.

It doesn't look like there are any addons.

Okay, just asking, because a lot of people tend to forget to do just that :D

Do you have a link to the site?

What happens if you change the <iframe> to <object> ?

I've just changed it to <object> and saved, refreshed the web page but it still picks up <iframe>.

I can confirm my changes are being saved, when I log out and log back in again they are still there.

Link is paulsheeranjewellers.ie/jaegerlecoultre-ezp-11.htm

I can't speak to your exact issue, but I have iframes from Amazon on a couple of sites, and the iframe source contains the frameborder="0" element in either case - when I specify a border, or not. It looks like Amazon just changes the border color to the same as the background color when no border is required. You might try that if you don't figure this out.

try this

<object type="text/html"  border="10" width="729" height="515" data="http://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.ie/"></object>

It should work

I've just made those changes, but its still has the <iframe> tags, when I look at the source in firebug.

I don't think the problem is with the actual HTML, my changes just seem to be taking effect.

It just occurred to me that it looks like you are rewriting your urls to look "nice" . Is there some sort of caching happening for that, this could prevent your changes from showing? It is probably a setting somewhere in your Zencart admin

The rewrites are all in the .htaccess file. So I don't think that would be the problem.

Ok, something very strange happening. I tried to edit another product just see what would happen and sure enough the changes were reflected on the browser when I refreshed the page.

So it doesn't appear to be anything to do with caching at all.

Very strange.

stephenconnolly:

Ok, something very strange happening. I tried to edit another product just see what would happen and sure enough the changes were reflected on the browser when I refreshed the page.

So it doesn't appear to be anything to do with caching at all.

Very strange.

But the page we were talking about isn't a product page it is a ez-page, isn't it? (looking at its url)

I think I know what's going on. I have some custom CSS which I want to use on this page, ( includes/templates/classic/css/page11.css ).

Based on some documentation I read, if I want to apply specific CSS to a page, the URL should look like this:

paulsheeranjewellers.ie/jaegerlecoultre-ezp-11.html

Now, if I remove this specified URL from the category settings ( * I may have mentioned in the initial post that I was trying to enter a product, its actually a category, sorry about that !) the iFrame border disappears as it should.

But the issue now is my custom CSS is not applied.

It does sound like your problem is with your URL rewriter not playing nicely with some stock Zen Cart functions and thus with other mods which use those. From the form of your URLs, you are not using CEON, which is widely reported to be the best at working with all ZC functions, and the cleanest and most flexible. With CEON, you would not need the -ezp-11.html cluttering up your pretty URLs. No rewriter should tack the fake .html onto the end of its product, as it does not tell the user or search engines anything useful.