blockquote text wrong position…no css change…only in firefox. Dumbfounded.

  • Resolved ericwilmoth

    (@ericwilmoth)


    8 years, 6 months ago

    I hope there’s a genius out there, because this is a weird one.

    Here’s a sample page of the problem:
    https://www.archetypalimages.com/2016/08/24/the-multiverse-you-unmasking-the-fractalverse-3/

    Go down about 2/3’s of the way, and I have several blockquotes with headshots of the quoted person. While this had been working just fine when I posted the article last month, I went through it today on Firefox, and discovered that the text in the quotes is significantly shifted to the right of the graphic. I’ve tested in every other browser I can get my hand on, but they all display fine. Firefox updated the other day to 49…so I got 48 portable, ran it from a jump drive, and it’s got the same problem. I’m testing this issue both on desktop and mobile browsers. Same thing.

    At first I thought I’d screwed up some css…i had been making some adjustments recently. But I just went and looked at a backup file, and the blockquote css I was using before is still intact, and nothing I’ve been doing involved making any changes to image related css.

    What’s also interesting about this, is that the offset happens to be the exact width of the graphic in the blockquote. I tested by resizing one of the images, and sure enough, the right-shift is in direct proportion to the width of the graphic itself. I tried looking at the text code of the post, because I’ve found glitches hidden in there before with things like this, but in the one blockquote I picked apart, it’s clean, so far as I can see.

    Now, in the last couple weeks since making this post I have made a variety of minor site changes with some additional plugins and other configurations…so I’ve gone back and tried putting a few of the simpler things back the way they were, and no dice. I figured before I waste any more time with this I should see if I can find anybody here who’d be willing to take a look at it and see if they might have a clue.

    It’s also worth noting that if I right-align the images, the problem vanishes (no left-offset)…so if I don’t hear anything by morning I’ll send a new, mockup link instead and just live with right-alignment until this gets sorted out.

    Really hoping someone wiser than I may have some ideas…

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  • This is a good one, its got me stumped so far I’m afraid.

    How are you adding this text? I’ve tried wrapping it in a span and trying to get it under control that way but its just not wanting to play nicely.

    Thread Starter ericwilmoth

    (@ericwilmoth)

    I appreciate you taking a look at it. To answer your question, I’m just doing normal copy/cut/paste/type when inserting the text. If need be, I dig into the code. Images are either loaded from the library, or I copy the image where it’s at and paste it; depends on the circumstances.

    Here’s another interesting factor…I finally created a fresh, test post…using the exact same code for one of the blockquotes, and it’s working just fine…

    …which leads me to think that somehow it’s some random thing in the post that came from one of the unrelated, minor edits which I made to it a while back…after which I didn’t bother reviewing the post in it’s entirety. I’m coming to accept that buggy things like this happen sometime with wordpress and all it’s bells and whistles. It sucks, but the only workaround I can think of–given this–is to revert to a working version after taking note of the changes in-between…then add them back in, carefully, and see what happens.

    I’m gonna’ go through my revisions this morning and see if I can pin it down.

    Thread Starter ericwilmoth

    (@ericwilmoth)

    Ok…first I actually tried just copy/pasting the entire code for the post into that test post I mentioned…and lo and behold, it’s perfect. How is that possible? The only differences I can think of would be things like tags/categories/featured image or turning off/on certain other options for the post. This is so mind-numbingly obscure.

    Thread Starter ericwilmoth

    (@ericwilmoth)

    Ok…I solved it…but it revealed another, baffling issue.

    So, get this…it had to do with the tags I added to the article. Apparently, for some of my tags, even though it’s not visible unless you copy and paste those tags from wordpress into a plain text editor, for some reason wordpress is adding question marks before and after certain tags…and that’s what’s introducing this weird aberration with the blockquotes. Go figure.

    It appears that specific tags are always going to generate question marks. My next test is going to be to see if I can eliminate a given tag from the site entirely, and then type it in fresh. If that doesn’t work, I would think that means there’s some deeper issue with the way tags are getting generated…which is a problem moving forward.

    That’s an odd one. Is it adding the question marks to the actual tags within your Dashboard, but invisible?

    Thread Starter ericwilmoth

    (@ericwilmoth)

    That did it. I rule.

    Wish I understood how that got screwed up in the first place. What an anomaly!

    Thread Starter ericwilmoth

    (@ericwilmoth)

    ThemeSumo,

    Exactly. So the question marks are invisible unless I copy the tags (from the quick edit page), and then paste them in the plain text editor, where they become immediately visible. Deleting those tags does clear it out, though. Typing the tag in fresh did not reproduce the problem…and, subsequently, pasting clean text is also working fine.

    The ultimate mystery is how it got there to begin with. All I can think is I must have copied/pasted the text from some source with hidden code in it…and apparently the tag entry system is not a plain text system, which i never would have guessed.

    What gets me is the very idiosyncratic way it messed with the site. very weird.

    Thanks again for putting extra eyes on it–it’s helpful knowing someone else is looking at it, just as confused…and that I’m not crazy or stupid!

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