Symphony.

The admin interface for editing sections is displaying completely differently in Google Chrome to in Firefox which makes it very buggy and confusing to use. It basically displays all the possible fields as a forms in a numbered list rather than adding fields individually through the dropdown select menu.

Is there anyway to correct this or is it something I’ll just have to put up with?

I’ve attached screenshots to illustrate what I’m talking about.

Thanks

That’s the underlying markup which JavaScript then transforms. Sounds like you’re getting a JavaScript error in Chrome which is preventing styling from being applied. Do you see any errors in your JavaScript console?

I’ve used Chrome in the past (and I’ve just rechecked now) and there are no issues on my installs with this browser.

Have you tried a hard reload to see if it’s a mis-cached script, or something similar?

I have gotten this behavior occasionally in chrome as well during pageload, i think due to slow server and/or client. I don’t think its really Symphony specific though.

I got these js errors in both Chrome and Safari but Safari still displays correctly for me:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘1’ of null - in admin.js Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘Language’ of undefined - in symphony.duplicator.js

I tried the page in Firefox with js disabled and it displays the same as in chrome so it’s definitely a js error. Clearing cache doesn’t correct the problem for me.

I’m running this installation on a local MAMP server so I doubt it’s a slow page load issue.

I may try and debug these errors to see if removing them fixes the display issue. If I do, I’ll post my findings here.

Cheers for the help

Out of interest which version of Symphony are you using? It sounds like you might be running 2.0.7 which has a JS bug that has subsequently been patched.

Ah! Thanks nickdunn, that is sure to be the problem