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Hi Cliff (& Rachel):

Many thanks, the 'div class="tipbox' goes a long way toward helping out here, between that and the 1x1 colour table, I can get to a reasonable workaround.

Many thanks for your time and trouble on this one, it is all very much appreciated!

Best regards

Tim

Clif, many thanks indeed for looking at this, much appreciated!

The 1x1 table I can use in a few places; given the number of pages where I previously used the breakout feature, though, it won't be practicable to retro code manually. My best workaround would seem to be going back and indenting lines that previously appeared in a box.

(Don't want to grumble, as I've always been a big fan of pbwiki -- but if I had known a forced upgrade to V2 was in the pipeline, I never would have started with V1 -- we haven't gained as much from V2 features as we have lost when V1 was withdrawn, and I don't see how we can ever get our V2 version website as well ordered as it was under V1).

I can't figure out, btw, how to change background colour in a 1x1 cell table; I'm sure I'm just being dense, but I'd be glad if someone could point me at how to do that!

Brian, many thanks -- I uninstalled Web Developer add-on from Firefox, and it now works just fine, whether using classic editor or point & click; both editors load and work, and display of the pbwiki is fine in either case.

Many, many thanks indeed -- your assistance here has been greatly appreciated! Well done!

Cheers

Tim

Thanks for your reply, Chris.

No problem on my home machine (running on Vista). Office machine is Windows XP Pro, ver 5.1. Classic editor in pbwiki loads ok, but display is broken and crazy. Point & Click editor does not load (progress bar almost gets to end, with message "Transferring data from darwintern.pbwiki.com...) and browser (FireFox) then hangs; error report it sends to Microsoft is:

szAppName: FireFox.exe
szAppVer: 1.8.20071.12718
szModName: hungapp
szModVer: 0.0.0.0
offset: 00000000

All Greek to me.

My work around here: I've installed Opera (not a browser I otherwise care for), which at least doesn't initialise pbwiki in point & click editor mode, so lets me edit in classic mode and display is fine. So at least its not the showstopper it was yesterday, but the behaviour is eccentric here so something ain't quite right under the hood.

While I'm about it here, let me also thank you guys at pbwiki; this incident notwithstanding, I'm an enthusiast for your product, it has brought a long-simmering project to life (have been running my wiki here for a year now), a genealogical site which has helped other researchers find my work and contribute to it. We've accomplished more on this project in the past 12 months than we had in the previous 5 years, and its thanks to pbwiki.

Maverick, thanks for reply.

I'm still stuck with this one -- of the two different computers I use, one is fine (editor in classic mode, so I can edit) and display is fine. On the other, display is crap unless set to 'point & click' editor mode -- but point & click editor won't load (the progress bar almost makes it to the end - 'downloading data from pbwiki) but then blows up, and browser hangs. Same problem whether using Firefox or IE6 (IE6 looks even worse).

Very, very frustrating :-(

I'm using my wiki for a similar purpose -- compiling a massive forest of family trees.

Here's a page showing one approach -- not optimal, but quite functional.

http://darwintern.pbwiki.com/20-DAR-00

Another useful way to use tables, to link individuals to specific categories of original documents (in this case, individuals to copies of census returns):

http://darwintern.pbwiki.com/31-PS-CE...

But I'm always on the lookout for good ideas -- hope you share them here! (I don't have a clue on how to make hot-spot clickable .jpegs -- any clues?)