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Hiding links in header messes up entire site?

gronfelt — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:16:27 GMT

I've got an odd issue, I'm trying to hide the links in the header (My Dashboard and so on) on one of my installations, because I wan't to keep the users on one site. So I comment out this part in header.get.html.ftl: <#if !isGuest> <div class="personal-menu"> <span c

Re: Hiding links in header messes up entire site?

mikeh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:05:43 GMT

You'll have hit a JavaScript error which has prevented some other scripts running.

Whenever you comment out some mark-up where DOM nodes have been assigned an id, you should be wary, because there's very likely going to be some code somewhere expecting it to be there.

In this case, I suspect it's the code in header.js trying to create the Sites dropdown YUI button (this.id + "-sites").

Mike

Re: Hiding links in header messes up entire site?

gronfelt — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:48:37 GMT

Thanks for your answer, I guess I'll have to dig in to YUI to try and get a better understanding of how these things are connected.