problem with community dropdown

[CorruptDictatorNumber2]

Sorry to bug you, but I have a question because I've tried everything I can think of to make this work, and it still hates me.

I currently run SCI-FIspace, the newish sci-fi dropdown. Before today, the dropdown always worked... But today, I tried to update it and it absolutely refused to work. The main page for the dropdown (http://slightlyschizophrenic.keenspace. ... space.html), while showing all the other updates, continued to show the old dropdown.

I tried deleting both the page and the .js file and uploading them again (manually updating, of course), but that did not change anything. I then tried changing the code a bit--until this point, I'd just kept the .js script in my images folder, so I made a scripts folder and moved it there. I changed the code on the webpage accordingly. Now the dropdown has disappeared altogether, no doubt because I deleted the old one from the images folder.

So why is it not showing up? Is there something I've done wrong with the code that I'm not catching?

(To see the code I use, check the dropdown's main page--it's in the text box. I'm not sure if it would show up if I typed it here.)

Thank you so much!

~K.A.L.

[Zuri]

Well its hard to troubleshoot if you don't post the .js code. if it just vanishes, chances are there is something's wrong.

I'm going to take a wild stab at it, but I see one two of your members have 's in their names. If you have these in the dropdown code without putting a slash in front, it will break the javascript. To see if thats the problem, just delete the 's and reload the page. If you need to have 's I think you put a \ in front of them.

It\'s the end of the world!

for example.

try that.

[YarpsDat]

Well, I'm getting 404 on http://slightlyschizophrenic.keenspace. ... fispace.js

Check the directory and filename, remember it's case sensive.
And check the permissions on the file and directory they should be like -rw-r--r-- for the file, and drwxr-xr-x for the directory.

[CorruptDictatorNumber2]

I have fixed both things, and it still doesn't work.

I am really sad because it sounded like such good advice that it would be sure to fix the problem....

I'm going to try posting my .js code; hopefully it will show up.

function goto_URL(object) {
window.location.href = object.options[object.selectedIndex].value;
}


//IMG SRC URL should point to the absolute URL of the dropdown graphic
//The HREF tag should show where clicking on the image should take you,
//usually to a sign-up spot

document.writeln('<FORM" SIZE="500"><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"><TR><TD align="center"><FORM><A HREF="http://slightlyschizophrenic.keenspace. ... html"><IMG SRC="http://slightlyschizophrenic.keenspace. ... ispace.jpg" border=0>');
document.writeln('<TR><TD align="center"><SELECT NAME="selectName" onChange="goto_URL(this.form.selectName)">');

//If nothing is inside the quotes, the text is not a link
//If there is a meta-character included in the name, precede the character
//with a backslach "\" to keep it from interfering with the script
//add new lines as needed, based on these

document.write('<OPTION VALUE="">We put the "space" in Keenspace<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="">-----<\/OPTION>');

document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://comic5d.keenspace.com/">Comic5D<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://decypher.keenspace.com/">Decypher<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://firebird.keenspace.com/">FireBird<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://honour.keenspace.com/">Honour's Requiem<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://aod.keenspace.com/index.html/">It's the End of the World!<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://mindmistress.keenspace.com/">Min ... s<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://isahn.keenspace.com/">Night & Day<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://pinoycity.keenspace.com/">Pinoy City<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://risen.keenspace.com/">Risen<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://slightlyschizophrenic.keenspace.com/">Slightly Schizophrenic<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://unafrontiers.keenspace.com/">UNA Frontiers<\/OPTION>');
document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://zeera.keenspace.com/">Zeera the Space Pirate<\/OPTION>');


document.writeln('<\/SELECT><\/TD><\/TR><\/TD><\/TR><\/FORM><\/TABLE>');


~K.A.L.

[YarpsDat]

*cough* Disable HTML in this post *cough*
and these two:

document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://honour.keenspace.com/">Honour[b]'[/b]s Requiem<\/OPTION>');

...

document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://aod.keenspace.com/index.html/">It[b]'[/b]s the End of the World!<\/OPTION>');

Don't look like fixed...


Should be:

Code: Select all

document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://honour.keenspace.com/">Honour\'s Requiem<\/OPTION>');

and

document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://aod.keenspace.com/index.html/">It\'s the End of the World!<\/OPTION>');

and I'm still getting a 404, but it may be just the anti hotlinking.

[CorruptDictatorNumber2]

Whoops! I accidentally posted the uncorrected code. The corrected version *is* the one on my site, I promise. (I double-checked.)

I also get the 404 error, and I don't know why.

OH, ha ha, I see the check box now. Wow, I'm mentally challenged.

Anyhow... yeah. Still not working.