TOPIC: 3rd party template messing with table format

Hello. I'm stuck.

I've got a third party template that I'm trying to use, but it messes with the comments table. Tried to poke around in the html and css, but frankly I made it worse. Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

here is a zoom in on the issue:


basically the table header for the comments block is double height, and therefore the background image doesn't flow; it does this in IE and FF. What would be causing this??

thanks.

Give us a link to the web site.

w.z2sys.com

the blog area is where we have comments enabled.

thanks!

How did you make this?
What I see from your html code is that
you have your article text in a table for example

<table>
<tr>
my article text
<div id="comment>
here comes !jocomment
</div>
</tr>
</table>

that is not a normal behavior. Normal looks like this:

<table>
<tr>
my article text
</tr>
</table>
<div id="comment>
here comes !jocomment
</div>

default Joomla 1.5 install, latest !joomlacomment. Just added youtheme!blueprint template, and then I get the problem. It works properly with rhuk_milkyway, so its defintely something with the interaction of the template and !joomlacomment...

not sure where to look though. any thoughts or pointers is appreciated.

-Matt

Can you change again to rhuk_milkyway - I want to see the code again.

done. let me know if anything jumps out.

Hm, okay you can change it again. Does this third party template has a forum where you can ask what to change?

yeah.... I've already gone down that path. They suggested that conflicting Java Script was possibly to blame.... which I'm a bit confused about, since there is nothing broke FUNCTIONALLY, it is simply the format for that first table getting whacked...

I was able to determine that -- both the YOO!blueprint theme and joscomment use .sectiontableheader as a class in their respective CSS files... so maybe they're mashing on each other??

no, no. they have sectiontableheaderyou and not sectiontableheader.
What I found out.
the sectiontableheader is getting this thing applied:
if you uncomment the margin - then it looks nearly normal. Try it!