[mt4] Can't Type In "entry Body" Textarea When Creating, Sudden problem Options

[Becky]

I started with a brand new, ground-up install of 4.0 two weeks ago with no problems. Last night I tried to create a new entry, and I found I cannot access the "entry body" textarea box on the new entry screen. The other fields (title, keywords, tags, etc) work just fine. But neither clicking in the entry box with the mouse or tabbing to it will produce a cursor... it's like it's just not there.

What I've tried:
- upgraded to 4.01 (without trouble)
- re-upped all .js files as binary
- cleared browser caches
- restarted browsers

Running Firefox & Safari on Mac OS 10.4.10

I'm about to lose my mind... any ideas?

Possible Fix: see below

This post has been edited by Becky: Oct 6 2007, 08:18 PM

[dreadfuldan]

I have the exact same problem.

Any tips on how to fix it?

I'd rather have the plain old entry box from MT3 than a useless one in MT4.

[Su-]

Running Firefox & Safari on Mac OS 10.4.10

This is happening in both Firefox and Safari? Also, what versions?
This is definitely known to happen with the Safari3 beta, and seems to be a problem with the browser itself. Downgrade.

Reports of this with Firefox are much fewer, though, so detailed information on that would be helpful. Have you tried disabling any extensions, etc? If that's a hassle(I use 20+), grab Portable Firefox from PortableApps, and you can test a base copy without actually installing anything.

[Becky]

Ah! After much fumbling with browsers, plugins, and extensions (to no avail), I made a tiny change in my mt-config.cgi file that seems, bizarrely enough, to have solved my problem:

All of the settings in my MT setup point to http://gobecky.net/whatever, I access the system at http://gobecky.net/cgi-bin/whatever, etc...

Somehow, in the config file, the StaticWebPath was set to http://www.gobecky.net/whatever. I removed the www, and all is well.

This feels extremely unlikely, and I'm half holding my breath for it to break again, but so far, so good. But like I said, bizarre, so YMMV.

[Su-]

Becky, could you please confirm the browser versions? There's a fair number of people reporting thing, and frankly, most aren't providing much information, and it's making it really hard to figure out what's going on.

[Becky]

Becky, could you please confirm the browser versions?

Sure thing.

From my "About Firefox" dialogue:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7


Here's a screenshot of my extensions (although it should be noted that I disabled them all and still had the issue).
http://beckyblitch.net/storage/ff-extensions.png

As for Safari, I'm not using the beta of Safari 3 -- I tried it when it came out, couldn't get it to do anything, and restored Safari 2.

And in case my system stats help...
http://beckyblitch.net/storage/about-this-mac.png

[Stermie]

I have the same problem after just installing MT4. I tested on Safari and Firefox for Mac as well as version IE6 on Windows. No go. Please let me know what needs to be done to correct this. Thanks.

[drina]

I tried Becky's fix, and it worked for one post. I can not type in the entry body anymore. In fact, when I pull up old posts to edit, nothing shows up in the entry body box... I'm at a loss, and extremely frustrated

[drina]

So if I re-upload the config file it will allow me to type another entry, but only once. I have to re-upload each time in order to be able to type in the text box.

[sledgeweb]

This happens to me on my laptop, but not on my desktop. Same version of FireFox on both, but different IE. On the laptop, the body entry field is not accessible at all. Also, if I go to widget sets and click the EDIT button next to a widget item within the default set, I get an edit screen with the same problem (on my laptop).

[drina]

Anyone help with this? I'm really frustrated that I can't blog anymore...

[Su-]

Anyone help with this? I'm really frustrated that I can't blog anymore...

Any help with what? The various people above are exhibiting different symptoms. What exactly are you asking about? What exact browsers are you seeing this in? Did you read Becky's post regarding what worked for her? Did you try it? Did it work? And so on.

This post has been edited by Su-: Oct 21 2007, 12:37 AM

[Steve M.]

Anyone help with this? I'm really frustrated that I can't blog anymore...

Any help with what? The various people above are exhibiting different symptoms. What exactly are you asking about? What exact browsers are you seeing this in? Did you read Becky's post regarding what worked for her? Did you try it? Did it work? And so on.

Hmm, the way I read this, we're all having the same problem, not a bunch of different ones, but I'll try to be as specific as possible about what's happening for me. I upgraded to MT 4.01 a few days ago and everything worked fine; I was able to write and edit entries with no issues. Today I tried to edit an existing entry, but when I opened it up to edit it, there was no text showing in the box, and I could not type in the box, or get a cursor to appear in the box. I then tried a new entry, and could not type in the box there either. I opened up a different MT 4.01 weblog and tried to edit an entry, but had the same problem. I tried to write a new entry, and had the same problem. I then went to the page itself, did a search, and on my search results page, there is an 'edit' link after each entry, so I clicked one of those, and I was able to edit the text. So I went back to the first weblog and tried to do the same thing, but on that one, the 'edit' links were not there. So I went to the search results template, but I was unable to type in the box to edit the template. Holy crap. That was all with Firefox 2.0.0.8 running on Windows 2000.

So then I opened up my old crappy version of IE, version 6.0.2800.1106CO and had the same problem. So I went to mt-config and took out the www, and tried again. It didn't change anything. So I tried it again in Netscape 8.1 and Opera 9.02 and had the same problem with both of them. The only thing I haven't done is try it on a Mac or on a public computer with a different OS.

All I can think of to do now is to reinstall it and see if it fixes anything, and if it doesn't, I'll have to downgrade to 3.whatever I was using before, which worked just fine.

[sledgeweb]

They really need to fix this, or just switch to a system that is less complex. MT4 control panel looks better, but functionality and speed are poor. I am still having this same problem on my laptop in IE and FireFox, but it works ok on my Desktop.

[Steve M.]

They really need to fix this, or just switch to a system that is less complex. MT4 control panel looks better, but functionality and speed are poor. I am still having this same problem on my laptop in IE and FireFox, but it works ok on my Desktop.

Bump.

Seriously -- please don't make me have to downgrade; it's going to be such a pain.

[Steve M.]

A new development -- not being content to sit around, unable to type or edit entries while no one seems to care, I decided to see what would happen if I published an entry even though I couldn't type any text. So I wrote an entry titled "This Sucks -- Movable Type 4.01 Has a Bug that Keeps Me from Typing an Entry" and published it, and when MT returned to the entry after successfully publishing, I was suddenly able to type in the text entry area again. So then I tried to edit an entry, and once again, the text area was empty and I couldn't type in it, but I published it, and it returned to the entry, it showed the original text and I could edit it. So then I tried it with a template, and the template issue was no longer a problem to begin with, but I would guess that you could just save the template and it would then let you edit it if you were having an issue.

So then I decided to see if there was any difference between saving an entry as published or unpublished, because for a new entry, if I have to save it before I type it, it would be better to save it as unpublished, but when I went to create a new entry, the issue was no longer there -- I was able to enter text without having to save it first. So I went to an existing entry to see if I could edit, and I could. So my recommendation to everyone who's having this issue, while it may not be a permanent solution, is to open an existing entry and save it, or save your new entry unpublished, and see if that does it for you.

This is still a pain in the ass if it becomes an issue again. I'm going to close Firefox and reopen it, try again, and see what happens. If I run into the problem again, I'll be back to bitch about it, but at least there's a way to get around it.