[wp-testers] Preview Button not working

Andrew Ozz admin at laptoptips.ca
Wed Nov 5 20:32:49 GMT 2008


Otto wrote:
> I'm up to 9522 and the Preview button still does nothing for me. I
> think it's because the javascript on that page breaks and halts
> execution, for some reason that I can't quite figure out.
> 
> I've tested in Firefox on Linux as well as IE6. Both are broken (the
> admin pages themselves look awful in IE6, actually, but that's to be
> expected).
> 
> I'll try it on Firefox for Windows: Nope, same error, same problem.
> Preview button does nothing on published posts.

Otto, the preview button uses js to add "target" to the form when 
clicked (that's what opens the new page/tab), submits the form then 
removes the target. This is the same for both published posts and 
drafts. It's strange that it only fails for published posts.

The same is used for pages, does it fail there too?

The js function is in wp-admin/js/post.js around line 300. Perhaps try 
disabling part of it to see what causes the error.

When js is disabled the "old" preview buttons are there, "Preview" for 
drafts and "View Post" for published.


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