Shades of blue

[j4]

My Friends page has gone strange. The background is all blue, with black text; usernames are black text on white background; headers and sidebar aren't appearing at all; and the last post I can see is one from bibliogirl at 2:09pm.

Anybody else getting this?

Update: Oh, now, this is silly. See, I read LJ in a very small browser window, so it doesn't look too obviously not-work all over my screen; consequently I've been glancing back at my Friends page and seeing that it's still all blue... and not scrolling down. What a fucking dodo I am.

Anyway, If I scroll down, I find that I can see the other posts, but bibliogirl's post about cinema tickets still appears at the top of the page on blue background before the start of the page as I'd expect it to appear. If you see what I mean. Which is irritating (no offence meant, bibliogirl!) but not so broken I can't read it.

Now to catch up with all the stuff I could have been reading all morning. Duhhhh.

Comments

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Nope; all looks fine on my friends page.

[saraphale.livejournal.com]

Yup, and on j4's friend page, too.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks fine to me if I log out and look at it; problem is then a) I don't get the filtered friends list, and b) I don't get to see friends-only posts.

Wondering if it's worth emailing LJ support.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

It could be how your site options are set up... have a look at the Site options (http://www.livejournal.com/manage/siteopts.bml) when logged in and see if changing the scheme helps.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Doesn't seem to make any difference. :-(

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Bugger. What does the HTML look like ?

[j4.livejournal.com]

If I view source I can read all the posts that I can't see on the actual page, and bibliogirl's post is the last post in the page's source.

Is there anything in particular you're thinking of that I could look for in the source? (If you just want to look at the HTML in more detail I can try to stick it somewhere that you can see it.)

[simonb.livejournal.com]

How odd; you could try running it past the W3C Validation service (http://validator.w3.org/) and see what it says. It could be someone has posted some broken HTML in on of their entries.

Which browser are you using ? It could also be a browser bug which is being tickled.

[imc.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that the last post appearing on the rendered page is also the one appearing just before bibliogirl's post in the HTML source - in which case it's almost certainly that one which contains the error. Look for mismatched <td> and </td> tags.

On the other hand, if it was the last one in the source an hour ago then the erroneous entry may well have been pushed off the end of your friends page by now and it will all have returned to sanity.

(further info (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imc/20360.html))