Question

Hi guys, an error occurs when I try to edit and save TWikiPreferences topic. After saving, the page refresh and all variables are unresolved and layout results corrupted.

This occurs only with this topic. With the other TWiki.* topics is all ok.

Environment

-- GabrieleCaracausi - 27 Apr 2006

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

You will need to tell us how to reproduce this, or at the very least what you changed in TWikiPreferences.

Note that you are strongly recommended not to edit TWiki.TWikiPreferences. Use Main.TWikiPreferences instead.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 28 Apr 2006

How did you edit the topic? With WYSIWYG editor?

-- PeterThoeny - 28 Apr 2006

Closing this due to inactivity.

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Jun 2006

This happens to my TWikiPreferences file (using twiki 4.0.x and Pattern Skin), and as far as I can tell it's harmless. The problem occurs when one or more custom variables includes an html div tag. HTML in a variable definition is rendered by twiki, and very often this results in a mismatch of opening and closing div tags. For instance, I have a lot of variables that open a new div, and one generic CLOSEDIV variable. Mismatched divs cause the left nav bar to relocate itself either on the right side of the page, overlapping some of the page content, or on the left side, but pushed down below the page content. It's disconcerting, but since my fellow admins and I are the only people really using our TWikiPreferences page, who cares? Variables that include DIVs render just fine in "real" pages....as long as I close them properly!

-- LisaGroomes - 05 Mar 2009

You could add a bullet with a closing div below each setting that opens a div.

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Mar 2009