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Okay, thanks for that Choli. Limitation.

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WDZ, could you tell me why Johnny_Macs TEST_USER was still banned, 4 days after I banned him. It had in the time remaining box -102.8 hours.

I've removed him now, but I'm assuming it should have been removed automatically and didnt work?

If you tried to log in as the banned user, the ban would have been lifted automatically.

So if 30 members are banned, and they don't bother logging back in again. That list could get kinda full. But, okay.

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Originally posted by Tochjo
In the Who's online list, you've added the "Viewing No Permission Page" line for guests, when they're looking at pages they need to be logged in for.

However, one can still see guests "Using Private Messaging System", while they're viewing a No Permission Page then too. Can you fix this?

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Originally posted by WDZ
Hmm... interesting bug! Fixed. Thanks.

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I can also still see guests editing posts, and I believe I also saw one posting a reply a few days ago...

I know... that's because they're not viewing the "no permission" page. They're seeing some other error like "invalid thread." MyBB can support guest posting and stuff, so that's not a bug.

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Originally posted by Tochjo
When hovering over names from users, the colour of the underline should be the same colour as the name of the user, i.e. red for super moderators and green for administrators.

This works correctly in all places when you're using Internet Explorer, but it screws up in Mozilla. I now always see the blue underline (matching colour with normal members), even for super mods and admins.

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There could be two reasons (cba to find out). In both cases it isn't Mozilla that screws up Mozilla shows it like it should be interpreted. It is MSIE that screws up.

1) There is a particular (logical) order you need for the a:link, a:visited, etc.. in style sheeds. First you must specify a:link, then a:visited, a:hover and finaly a:active. If one or two are the same, you need to split them up...

So, for example, this:
body a:link, body a:visited, body a:active { color: #124F8E; text-decoration: none; }
body a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
should be:
body a:link, body a:visited { color: #124F8E; text-decoration: none; }
body a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
body a:active { color: #124F8E; text-decoration: none; }

2)In <a href="blah"><font color="green">WDZ</font></a> only WDZ is supposed to be green. The color of the link itself isn't given, so this shouldn't be interpreted as green. the link is outside the fontcolor, not inside. (MSIE doesn't interpret the tags logicaly, although it seems correct, it is in fact wrong)

Well, I know #2 is the problem, but I didn't think about changing the CSS to "correct" it... I don't see how that solution would work though. The "active" is for when you actually click on the link, right? The problem here is hovering. Anyway, unless the color of a username is actually in the CSS, I don't think the CSS can change the underline color.

<a href="blah" style="blahblah; etc..."><font color="green">WDZ</font></a>
or
<a href="blah" class="admin"><font color="green">WDZ</font></a>
or something like that... In that way you can alter the colors with CSS...


a:active is indeed for when you actually click the link. But the a:hover should be defined before it, not after it, to work properly; you can say that a:active is a special case of a:hover (hover above it AND click it), so the order should be: a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active.... (<== this has nothing todo with the problem here, but can cause other problems)


EDIT:
the easiest and cleanest solution for the "colored underline"-problem is (this is even without altering the CSS):
instead of:
<a href="blahblah"><font color="green"><b><i>WDZ</i></b></font></a>
do:
<a href="blahblah" style="color: green"><b><i>WDZ</i></b></a>

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
<a href="blah" class="admin"><font color="green">WDZ</font></a>

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that's dodgy, because that should be done for all groups and what would happen if a new gourp is added or deleted an old one? you should change the css too because it isn't generated by php, right?

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
<a href="blahblah" style="color: green"><b><i>WDZ</i></b></a>

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if that works, it's a nice sollution.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
the easiest and cleanest solution for the "colored underline"-problem is (this is even without altering the CSS):
instead of:
<a href="blahblah"><font color="green"><b><i>WDZ</i></b></font></a>
do:
<a href="blahblah" style="color: green"><b><i>WDZ</i></b></a>

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I know, but doing that isn't as simple as editing a template. MyBB has a function for username coloring, so the <font> tags come from that (and are added to the username before evaluating the template), and the <a> tags are usually in the template. I'd have to make sure the <a> tags are inside the <font> tags for all the places where this "problem" occurs, and to be honest, I couldn't care less if the underline is the wrong color.