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POPgold for Dreamweaver: Frequently Asked Questions PC/Mac DWMX-DWCS3 $15.00

My page fails CSS Validation due to the divaPOP stylesheet having a trailing comma after some of the selectors. What's that about?: The trailing comma is a css hack that makes those styles work only in IE (including IE7), while all other browsers simply ignore the line entirely. This is part of our work-around for an IE bug that affects multi-line anchor text. If you need your css to Validate, then you can move the styles to a Conditional Comment.
I do want to support IE5mac. Is there anything special I need to do?: In IE5mac, hardcoded onload events in the <body> tag will prevent diva scripts from firing. So to support IE5mac you will need to move those <body> onload events to a window.onload functon. But that's easy. Here's how to move body onload events into windows.onload.
The divaPOPgold icon is missing (or misplaced) in Internet Explorer next to a long text link when it wraps to two lines. Can this be fixed?: All versions of Internet Explorer below IE8, have a bug that makes the divaPOPgold icon disappear next to text links long enough to wrap to a second line. divaPOPgold now offers a new class=divaPOPiewrap to work around this IE bug. Add that class to long text links that you think might wrap to a second line.
How do I customize the image popup window, for example. the window's appearance, content, and Title?: Your images will appear in the file /diva/divaPOP/divaPOPgold_img.htm, so that's where we make these edits. Open that file, and then in Code View, you will see there are two places you may add any content you wish, marked by the comments:  Add content, like logos, text, links, whatever you may wish, to those two spots only, and not inside any of the other tags. If you have chosen Hug in the UserInterface, then the popup will automatically size itself to show your added content.

To change the appearance of the popup, you may edit the CSS found in the Head of that page to make any other changes you may wish, like adding a background image, or changing text color, background color, image padding, image border, etc

Tip: temporarily uncomment this line:



so you can see the effects of your CSS changes in Design View. Then be sure to recomment it when you are done.

You can (indeed you should) customize the window's Title (the one that appears atop the window) simply by editing the page's <title> tag.
Can I prevent the ImageToolBar from appearing over the image popup in Internet Explorer?: Sure, in the <head> of /diva/divaPOP/divaPOPgold_img.htm (which you divaPOPgold adds to your site,) simply UNcomment this line:



so it looks like this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">
In Internet Explorer 7, why is there a big gap below the image in hugged img popup?: This will occur locally only. When you view the site online (or on a local server) it will appear just fine. This occurs because IE7 inserts an address bar above the image, but only when viewed on a server. When the image popup is set to hug the image, divaPOPgold knows to leave room for that line, so when it is absent, a gap appears. Bottom line: your users will not have this gap.
Can a user copy the image in an image popup?: Yes, altho with Click-to-close turned ON, it is a bit harder for a novice to do so.

If it is your desire to BLOCK downloading, then know that there is really no way to do that. The image itself is in the user's cache, so it can always be accessed, or the user can grab the image right off the screen.

If it is your desire to ALLOW downloading, then turn click-to-close OFF. And tell the user to right-click to save. And also on the /diva/divaPOPgold/divaPOPgold_img.htm page, UNcomment the Microsoft Image ToolBar line of code to allow the ImageToolbar to appear in IE (see the FAQ right above this one).
I got this alert: "There is an error on this Child page. No EditableRegion named "head" was detected.": Your Template for this page was apparently created in Dreamweaver 4, which means it is missing a critical Editable Region in the head and should be fixed. Do this by manually adding the missing Head tags. Add this code to the Head of the DW4 Template:




Save the Template, updating all its Children. Now your pages are compatible with all versions of DW, and you can go ahead and add divaPOP.
Nothing happens when I click on the divaPOPgold icon: One of three things is causing this: If you are attempting to add divaPOP to an Include file, then realize that divaPOP must be added to the file that CALLS the Include. (You can later simply move the code to the Include file if you wish.) OR your page has Validation errors that need correcting, OR you are using Includes that may contain the Title, Head, Body tags, etc. If there are Validation errors, fix them (they need to be fixed any way) otherwise, contact us to get an update for your Extension.
What versions of Dreamweaver are supported?: The divaPOPgold User Interface has been tested in DWMX-DWCS3 on Mac OSX 10.4+ and PC WinXP. Unlike later versions, DWMX is not able to identify External links when viewed in a browser within DW.
I don't like popup windows, but I DO like the idea of adding an Acrobat icon next to pdf links..Can divaPOPgold add the icons but NOT pop open a new window?: Indeed divaPOPgold can do that! Close to the top of file /diva/divaPOP/divaPOP.js you will see popm=1;. Simply change the 1 to 0. divaPOPgold will now add the image icons for you, but will otherwise not affect the behavior of your page! A side note here - any edits you make to this js file, in that same folder to the divaPOP.css or divaPOP_img.htm files will NOT be lost when the divaPOPgold UI is used again. This means your custom edits are safe from overwrites.
divaPOPgold image popups flash briefly at 400x400px before they open at the final hug size. Can I change that size to more closely match my usual image dimensions?: Sure, by making a simple edit near the top of /diva/divaPOP/divaPOP.js where you will see openDim=400. Change the 400 to any other value you wish.
In Internet Explorer the image popup always has a faint vertical scrollbar. Can I get rid of that?: To eliminate the "ghost" vertical scrollbar that Internet Explorer adds to the image popup, even when no scrollbar is needed at all, you can set this variable to 0. Unfortunately this has the undesireable effect of preventing the appearance of scrollbars when they are actually needed: i.e. when your image is too large to fit on a user's low resolution monitor. If your images are large and you worry that scrollbars may be needed in hugged popups on occasion, then set iScrollbars=1 and curse at IE.
I have the old divaPOP on my page, and have put the new divaPOPgold calls in an Include file. Will this work?: Yep, divaPOPgold will understand the old divaPOP settings, so it will behave just like divaPOP on those pages.
What versions of Dreamweaver are supported?: The divaPOP User Interface has been tested in DWMX-DWCS3 on Mac OSX 10.4+ and PC WinXP. Unlike later versions, DWMX is not able to identify External links when viewed in a browser within DW.
Notwithstanding the Answer just above, I am using DWMX2004 (or higher) yet External links are not being identified when the page is viewed in a browser within DW. What's wrong?: Most likely there is an entry missing in the Site Definition window for this site. You must fill in the HTTP address in the Local Info tab, shown here: