We are using a cascading style sheet (CSS) to simulate a tab table for a Web application in R5. We have a field that looks up to a view that returns tables formatted in HTML in each tab. The problem is that sometimes the "a" link in the tables doesn't work. If we remove the style sheet, everything works fine. The main culprit seems to be the position: absolute style for each tab.
Does R6 render CSS better then R5? If we upgrade will I still have the problem?
I
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think you will have the same problem if you upgrade because it sounds like the problem is in your
application or in the browser, not in the Domino server, unless I've misunderstood you.
The Domino server doesn't "render" CSS. It just sends the CSS to the browser, unchanged. The browser does the rendering, and the browser decides when a link has been clicked. It sounds like your application is generating pass-thru HTML for these tables. (Does the view contain HTML pass-thru in its columns and does your field formula use @DbLookup or @DbColumn to retrieve the information?) That would be HTML-generated by your application, not by the Domino server.
You create a CSS and the server sends it to browser, verbatim. You create pass-thru HTML and the
server sends that to the browser, again without changing it. That being the case, it's not clear
what you expect the Domino server to do differently to make your application work. Can you please
be more specific?
This was first published in April 2003