Hiding links in header messes up entire site?

[gronfelt]

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 class="menu-item-icon my-dashboard"><a href="${url.context}/page/user/${user.name?url}/dashboard">${msg("link.myDashboard")}</a></span>
         <span class="menu-item-icon my-profile"><a href="${url.context}/page/user/${user.name?url}/profile">${msg("link.myProfile")}</a></span>
         <span id="${args.htmlid}-sites-linkMenuButton" class="link-menu-button">
            <span class="menu-item-icon sites link-menu-button-link"><a href="${url.context}/page/site-finder">${msg("link.sites")}</a></span>
            <input id="${args.htmlid}-sites" type="button"/>
         </span>
         <span class="menu-item-icon people"><a href="${url.context}/page/people-finder">${msg("link.people")}</a></span>
      </div>
      </#if>
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To me that seems pretty self-contained, it's just presentation of a couple of links. However, appearantly there's far more to it than meets the eye, because the result is a real mess: Some buttons don't render ok, the wiki don't parse links (like [[link]]) anymore, the document library cannot be shown (it's just empty) and so on. All this from just not showing a couple of links and a button.

What am I missing?

[mikeh]

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

[gronfelt]

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.