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January 2, 2009
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CFDebug text is ALL WHITE

  • January 2, 2009
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I have beaten my head against a wall for a little bit now and all I have to show for it is a dent - in my head.

For some reason whenever I put in the css styles below - all my cfdebug onscreen output goes away.

Ok rephrase that: everything starting at the first SQL statement and down. The table showing the page load times and page template names shows up But nothing else.

Can ANYONE see what in these styles would conflict with the .cfdebug default styles? Interestingly - this was happening in both FF3 and IE6 but now is only in FF.

Also - at first there were NO errors dumps available including the server info and the page load table - but a somehow that came back with a setting on the server.

Anyway - anyone have any ideas why this style sheet would conflict in FF - OR maybe what setting I must have fooled around with in FF to make this happen?

Sorry this was so confusing.
Chris
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    January 8, 2009
    First, download this:

    http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

    And this:

    http://getfirebug.com/

    Both are invaluable in debugging CSS issues. They are both extensions to the firefox browser. You obviously have a CSS conflict, so they will help.

    If I get an error, I usually disable all styles with the web developer toolbar.

    Mikey.
    January 8, 2009
    I was able to find some styling when I browsed using Safari on my PC. Right at the top of my page was the followign interesting style definition.....

    table.cfdump_udfarguments th {
    text-align: left;
    color: white;
    padding: 5px;}
    Imagine that color of white. How do you think that got there? I don't even know where these styles are kept :(

    Where are these stored on the server? Can I edit them somewhere?

    Anyone?

    Thanks
    January 3, 2009
    ok Ian one at a time:

    I am using firebug and and all the offending css is there clear as day and that is listed in the code below. Using your c-s-Y gets me the message "no style information"

    If I do a page source - all the cfdebug info is there in black and white. Jsut to clarify - this is the information such as the application vars, session vars, etc.


    As for browsing to non existent pages - I get the the code attached in the second half of the code window below. It starts with debugging information and then gives me EVERYTHING I expect from the normal page. However it does not tell me "error 404, page not found, etc." AND the view source gives me the same data - as the screen rendering.

    I hope that helps some.
    Inspiring
    January 2, 2009
    echowebs wrote:
    > Don't know if this has anything to do with it - I suspect not but who am I - If I browse to a non existent page - I get NO cferror telling me the file does not exist.

    I do not know if that is a factor or not either, but it may not be
    unexpected behaviour. What do you mean about 'no cferror'? Do you get
    any error such as HTTP 404 or some such, or do you get a blank page?

    Is the page blank or just invisible, what does veiw source show you?

    What about an HTM or HTML page that does not exist, what behavior does
    that cause?

    January 2, 2009
    Don't know if this has anything to do with it - I suspect not but who am I - If I browse to a non existent page - I get NO cferror telling me the file does not exist.
    Inspiring
    January 2, 2009
    I don't know, but I find the Firefox, Web Developer plug-in, View Style
    Information function very hand for just this type of headache.


    If you have the plug-in type 'CTRL-SIFT-Y' and click on any offending
    page element and you will get a Style Information panel that will tell
    ever CSS style command that has been applied to that element and what
    was the source of that command.