menu/buttons not displayed within window

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Chuck

Some web sites open a window but a subwindow (menu)
within the openned window does not show up or clickable
buttons in the displayed menu either do not show up or
are not usable, i.e. clicking on a button evokes no
action. I right clicked on the not working area and it
appears to the an ASPX file with http linkages (that
should be but are not active).

Example. The below site should show several buttons
below the Welcome label on the left of the window, but on
my computer I only see the Welcome label and nothing
under it.

http://chickering.com/stu_conn/student_connection.aspx?
group_number=724532

This is on a computer running XP home edition and IE6
with all updates.

Could it be that I do not have a late enough version of
some activeX or Visual Basic element/lib so that the code
is not properly recognized?
 
Do you have a popup stopper program or Antivirus that claims to do that? The
options in such a program would be the first place I'd look. Otherwise you
may be trying to fix something that's simply blocked rather than broken.

Charlie
 
Chuck said:
Some web sites open a window but a subwindow (menu)
within the openned window does not show up or clickable
buttons in the displayed menu either do not show up or
are not usable, i.e. clicking on a button evokes no
action. I right clicked on the not working area and it
appears to the an ASPX file with http linkages (that
should be but are not active).

Example. The below site should show several buttons
below the Welcome label on the left of the window, but on
my computer I only see the Welcome label and nothing
under it.

http://chickering.com/stu_conn/student_connection.aspx?group_number=724532

This is on a computer running XP home edition and IE6
with all updates.

Could it be that I do not have a late enough version of
some activeX or Visual Basic element/lib so that the code
is not properly recognized?
Click to expand...

Could be lots of things. You will have to do some tests to figure out
what combination of things works to diagnose this.

E.g. to start you might guess it is a coloring problem. So I would press
Ctrl-a and see if the reverse colors show anything that was previously
hidden. Hmm... that Select All does not change the background color
of the buttons but does change a background strip where the labels are
written. For more extreme changes along the same tack you could use
the Accessibility dialog to temporarily
Ignore colors specified on Web pages
(Alt-T,O,Alt-e,c)

Similarly you could wonder if the text size or fonts play a role in your
symptom and make changes either using the View menu options
or the Accessibility dialog again. In this case it appears that only the
Accessibility dialog would help for such tests.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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