Ajaxsearch and 0.9.6; same calls as 0.9.5 not working

Ryan; I understand how it is supposed to work - but I don’t think it is working properly for me - you can not read the results. See the screen grab.
Thanks for the help.
Hal D

You’ll just need to adjust the CSS to remove the opacity and background (and maybe z-index) I suspect. Use Firefox with Firebug’s Inspect mode to figure out which selectors to adjust then have a go at it!

Just for grins I changed the tools->configuration to the template I used in the tutorial and stuck a call to AjaxSearch in it. Well surprise - it works as advertised. So now I know all my problems are related somehow to the other template, not the css, or ajaxsearch, etc. Now to find whatever it is causing the problem.
Cheers,
HalD

Ryan & Susan; The problem turned out to be too many divs. I had ditto, ajaxsearch and user login each in their own div. I thought it would give me more specificity for styling. What happened I guess is that AjaxSearch cannot push down other content unless it is in the same div. I stripped out all the divs except one for sidebar content and now everything works as it should. Lesson learned: Don’t get try to get too tricky with the css.
Thanks,
HalD

You’re learning about the document flow. My suspicion based on your statement is that each containting DIV was positioned and as such, removed from the document flow. If anything is absolutely or statically positioned, and sometimes if floated, they won’t affect other elements and you’ll get lots of fun overlap.

When I used to build sites, they were chock full of tons of extra DIVs and way too much CSS. Now I’m usually able to achieve what’s needed with a lot less. Only took a couple of years to get there, but it’s nice.

It feels so good when you quit banging you head against the wall.
HD

Still banging...

I’m actually having the same problem. No results on the landing page. I haven’t had time to look into why, but I’ve tried everything. Had this problem on 2 very different servers. The AJAX piece works fine, but the landing page reports that it couldn’t find anything.

0.9.6-RC2 with default AjaxSearch 1.6 (which is labeled 1.5).

Quick fix for me was to put FlexSearchForm on the landing page. Not ideal, but it seems to work perfectly in a pinch.

Quote from: The at Mar 22, 2007, 11:08 PM

Quick fix for me was to put FlexSearchForm on the landing page. Not ideal, but it seems to work perfectly in a pinch.

Count me in for the no landing results. Thanks for posting this tip!

Thanks guys, I’ll give it later today and report back.