stage 1 submisson page missing bits in IE 6 & 8 ojs2.2.4

[omacneil]

Running OJS 2.2.4 in both IE 6 & 8 the user (and me reproducing it) have the bottom part of the page / form not be visible. From the attached screendump you can see I am scrolled all the way to the bottom.

Firefox (at least on linux) has no problems.

Clearing caches in OJS has no effect.

Validator.w3.org says:

1. Line 248, Column 669: document type does not allow element "p" here; missing one of "object", "applet", "map", "iframe", "button", "ins", "del" start-tag

…anguage:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]--> <p>You will complete the short bio which w…
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Which looks serious.

I'm more inclined to think that I've messed with something by accident than that y'all haven't testing everything with Exploder.

We are running under $10 /month hosting so we have limits like no access to the apache log files and inability to delete files generated by the www-data (We do have a restricted shell)

A quick search of the forums on "checkbox" didn't show anyone else having this problem.

Any debugging guidance you could provide would be helpful

[jmacgreg]

Hi omacneil,

You can try this trick to force errors to the web page. (You'll want to turn this off once you've got the error.) You may also want to try removing or editing the checkbox item that seems to be choking, which you can do in Journal Setup Step 3.1, under Submission Preparation Checklist. If you still have problems after troubleshooting the checkbox item, could you post the HTML text of that item here? I may also try a test submission on your server.

Cheers,
James

[omacneil]

Thanks for your help, you gave us the answer.

It looks like the problem was a bad paste from MS Word:

Pasted below is the html / from the html view of the editor.

<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal 0 false false false </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <mce:style><! /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} --> <!--[endif]-->
<p> text of checkbox description </p>

It may be that this sort of thing is causing problems for other people.

I'm guessing you don't validate HTML from logged in users ...

[jmacgreg]

Hi omacneil,

Glad to hear the problem has been solved! OJS does strip unauthorized/suspicious HTML from non-authorized users (eg. authors; reviewers; readers) but not necessarily from journal managers or editors.

Cheers,
James