Lookup Filter Changes & Common Fixes

[hrtbrk]

Yesterday, several Neopians discovered that their User Lookups and Pet Pages no longer worked. Many assumed that TNT had either changed the filters or that this was a glitch.

 

Today, via TNT's offical Neoboard forum, they confirmed that they did in fact change the filters.

 

If your lookups are not displaying correctly, two common solutions are

- Make sure your style tags read as follows <style>CONTENT</style>. Style tags written like this <style /> or </style //> no longer work.

- Shortened links no longer work. Links that look like this <a href="news.phtml">News</a> will need to be changed to this <a href="/news.phtml">News</a>

 

*These are common fixes but are not guaranteed solutions. Check with your lookup creator to see if they posted a fixed version.

 

 

Current Topic: Filter Change for User Lookups and Petpages

 

We've recently updated our filters on Pet Pages and User Lookups so that they are the same as the filters on shops. If you have added any extra html to those pages to make them more interesting and more unique please make sure that you go and look at your code as you may need to make a few changes.

 

-The Fun Neopets Code Filtering Team

[Domino]

GAAAH!!!!! This is so frustrating. My UL is all misaligned now...and everything was "correct" to start with. I literally finished coding this two days ago. *is extremely frustrated*

 

If anyone knows how to fix my UL, I would love you forever.

[Oblivion]

That's nice now. The TNT leaves us with hard work to do.

[emeraldmartini]

Thanks for posting this info. At least we now know it's an official, permanent change, not just a glitch.

 

Does anyone know how to get around the positioning issue? (That the filter is not allowing the word 'position' between the <style> </style> tags)

 

I heard there was a way to position things outside of those tags, but I don't know how to do so.

[Annie]

For positioning, try using < / style> instead of </style>.

[Domino]

@emeraldmartini

 

Use inline styling. Basically, you would put <div id="divname" style="position:absolute"></div>

 

www.neopets.com/~Ddianc has coding fixes too.

 

 

If anyone knows how to fix my UL, I would love you forever.

[Wembly]

Domino, what exactly do you want fixed on yours? It looked good to me?

 

Also, anyone know why my standard neopets links' text aren't showing up? Apparently they are there because if you put your mouse over where 'account' should be, the thing drops down showing neomail and whatnot. I didn't change any of their links, just moved them so I don't get why its all weird?

[Domino]

Aaaaaaaahhh!!! YAYY! Kay. Sorry. I fixed it. After seemingly hours on the HC.

 

If your stats are not aligning...

 

 

 

#content{width:374px;padding:464px 0px 0px 7px;}

 

Smaller padding value (7) will move left, larger value (464) will move top.

 

Yeah. Happy. :D

[Octopus]

Jellyneo's wishlist coding doesn't work anymore :(. Oh well, I'll follow the above suggestions when I have the patience to recode.

[Wembly]

Doh! Just realized why I couldn't see links, it was because I changed my theme and the TFR theme has white lettering. Didn't know that changed with the themes. Guess I need to figure out how to specify that then?

[Lycan]

Ah!

That makes sense. I was wondering why half my background was missing o_O

I ended up deleting the code. I'll have to look for something else to suit my fancy, since the current site I use hasn't updated in almost a year.

Gah, annoying.

[picky_nut]

That's annoying... I think I will wait till sunnyneo update my lookup, I'm not really good at coding...

[rugrat0ne]

Does anyone know how to fix the "text area" coding for petpages? I had some on some of my pet pages, and now it's all a mess. I need it to get trophies and things to my guild members.

[Spritzie]

Does anyone know how to fix the "text area" coding for petpages? I had some on some of my pet pages, and now it's all a mess. I need it to get trophies and things to my guild members.

 

As of yet, I don't believe there's a fix for text areas. It's also stopping graphic makers from putting up their layout coding for others. :(

[AthenaHollow]

They've supposedly removed the ability to use 'position' in your css at all. So, if you want to update your full layout and change the location of certain elements, you'll have to have some seriously deep CSS skills to back it up.

 

I just spent an hour or so correcting my chosen layout: http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=cherrygashes

 

If you know what the default profile looks like, you can tell that it was a total pita.

 

BUT, if anyone wants some help, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do.

 

 

-- EDIT --

 

If you guys need me to edit your lookups, send me a message here via the forum please. I can't post css code in the message box without it yelling at me and linking offsite to a txt file is frowned upon. Thnx!

[NoAI]

I don't use fancy user look ups and pet pages. I just use simple HTML on my to construct my pet page that I myself can edit and manage with at least the pride of someone who assembles their own bookcase out of plywood. Simple, at least non horrendous little things; just takes me forever to write the content for them.

 

Even I'm suffering under this.

 

My biggest complaint is that their filters are removing the body tags. That's how their own help pages tell us to edit our background colors, and I certainly don't know any other way.

 

Their own #PHOTO are now being rejected on page edit. It's not very attractive to begin with, but it's their own code, it should still work.

 

My dividers have been replaced from {HR SIZE=1 WIDTH=80% ALIGN=center NOSHADE COLOR=#F3FBB9} with just {hr align="center"}, which is basically taking a subtle underscore and making it heavily creased hash mark.

 

Oh, and one and only one of my tables got changed from percentages to pixels. Not sure why just that table and no other.

[Xepha]

In summary, TNT changes are a pain in everyone butt. I seriously think it was a dumb move for them to deny useful codes around the site, especially those who allow us to share code. Some people will argue that it's to prevent problem with malicious codes or to prevent people from embeding links to offsite places... But we all know that whatever they end up doing, it won't stop people from tricking others into being cookie grabbed or from going on fake login pags. What it really does is to kill all the creative community. Hundreds of people were offering their help when it came to html code, css code, premade layout, pixels, button requests and the like. Now that we cannot even display a code for take-out, what are we supposed to do? Surely not replacing our pointy brackets with curly brackets in all of our creative product. That would be insane. Since we cannot educate people about code either (the <pre> tag was dismissed as well), we have no easy well to spread knowledge about how to code properly. As NoAI just pointed out to us, the HTML tutorial that was written by TNT is more than outdated. It does not comply with any of the current standards. It doesn't talk about CSS. On step 12, they explain how to make a banner or logo. I'm horrified by what I read there. First of all, it assume that you are using a PC. Well, that's nice for the rest of the population... (a total of 12.3% people are either on Linux or Mac OS as of December 2010) But it also gives instructions for Paint, of all things. It's fairly easy to get a free graphic editor, that is better than Paint. But whatever. Let's read on. It tells me roughtly how to use all of the tools, by saying they are all pretty obvious. Then you save the picture. At no point they tell you that you need to upload it, and that you cannot upload it anywhere because some domains are blocked by TNT. But yes, whathever, it's a bad outdated tutorial that cannot possibly be useful for fixing the mess TNT has caused.

 

I don't often rent like that, but you have to understand that I've been working on my premade userlookup page for 2 years now. And I cannot even share those codes and images with anyone because text_area has been disabled.

[Mina_russell]

I did my user lookup based on a code I found.. and.. I edited it completely.. and now, it doesn't work.. and I don't know how to fix it!! :sad02:

[ravendragonwing]

I am horrible at this, can someone take a look at mine and tell me how to fix it? My user look up that is, I make changes and I get an Error: We cannot update your personal information.

Why not? grrrrr.....

<style>

body{background:url(http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu221/ravendragonwing/bats.jpg); }

</style>

<style />

 

#main{background:none;border:none}

 

</style />

<style />

 

.contentModuleHeader,.contentModuleHeaderAlt{background:#9966ff}

 

</style />

<style />

 

#userinfo .contentModuleContent{background:#cc0033}

 

#usercollections .contentModuleContent{background:blue}

 

#usershop .contentModuleContent{background:yellow}

 

#userneopets .contentModuleContent{background:green}

 

#userneohome .contentModuleContent{background:blue}

 

#usertrophies .contentModuleContent{background:purple}

 

</style />

 

All I did was remove the "/" from the "<style />"

Thanks!

 

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[Oblivion]

I am horrible at this, can someone take a look at mine and tell me how to fix it? My user look up that is, I make changes and I get an Error: We cannot update your personal information.

Why not? grrrrr.....

<style>

body{background:url(http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu221/ravendragonwing/bats.jpg); }

</style>

<style />

 

#main{background:none;border:none}

 

</style />

<style />

 

.contentModuleHeader,.contentModuleHeaderAlt{background:#9966ff}

 

</style />

<style />

 

#userinfo .contentModuleContent{background:#cc0033}

 

#usercollections .contentModuleContent{background:blue}

 

#usershop .contentModuleContent{background:yellow}

 

#userneopets .contentModuleContent{background:green}

 

#userneohome .contentModuleContent{background:blue}

 

#usertrophies .contentModuleContent{background:purple}

 

</style />

 

All I did was remove the "/" from the "<style />"

Thanks!

Please don't curse... Maybe you exceeded the character limits because when that happened to me, I found out that I exceeded the character limit and would say there would be an error.

 

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[ravendragonwing]

It says I still have over 3000 characters left......

 

 

Please don't curse... Maybe you exceeded the character limits because when that happened to me, I found out that I exceeded the character limit and would say there would be an error.

 

 

logging out and logging back in allowed me to make the changes...

Strange......

Thanks!

 

It says I still have over 3000 characters left......

 

 

 

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[FutureTXTurkey]

At his point it is such a mess that I am content not to have custom pages anymore, but when I go to edit my user lookup it tells me "We cannot update your personal information." So not only have you made my code not work, but you have made it so that I have to have and ugly mess of unusable code sitting at the top of my user lookup? Well thanks a lot TNT.

 

Update: Well it finally let me change it to fix the coding changes, but it still doesn't look quite right and I'm not sure how. I hid my code in spoiler tags, so as not to clog up the forum, but if someone who knows more than me could take a look at it I'd be very appreciative. I just want to get rid of the neopets header bar.

 

 

<style>
#header,#footer, hr, #userneohome{display:none}
p,td,body, table, tr, font, a, .medText
{font-family: arial;
color: #000;
font-size: 8pt;}
#userneohome img {width:100px;height:100px; }
i
{color: #000;
font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;}
u{color:#aaa;border-bottom:2px solid #000; text-decoration:none;}
#main{width:600px; background:none; left:10px;top:50px;border:none;}
#userneopets img {width:95px; height:95px;}

body {background-color:#000;}

#userinfo .contentModuleContent{
background-image:url(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6982/shieldtdn.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top right;
}
#userinfo .medText img {visibility:hidden;}
#userinfo .medText table table img {visibility:visible;}

a:link, a:active, a:visited, b, a
{color: #000;
text-transform: lowercase; font-weight:normal;}
a:hover b, a:hover
{text-transform: lowercase; color:#999;}

a.nav, a.nav:visited, a.nav:active{text-align:center;text-transform:lowercase;background:#000;color:#fff;letter-spacing:-1px; font: 14pt arial; width:83px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-top:4px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px; }
a.nav:hover{background:#efefef;color:#000;}
.name
{color:#000; font-style:italic;
font-size: 26pt; font-family:georgia; letter-spacing:-3px; line-height:2px;}
.contentModuleHeader, .contentModuleHeaderAlt
{
border: none;background-color: #fff;color: #fff;font-size: 7.5 pt; line-height:4pt;border-bottom: 2px solid #f0f0f0; }.contentModuleContent
{
border: none; width:500px;}
#usertrophies img {width:30px; height:30px;}
#content{width:600px;background-color:#fff; border:none;}
.contentModule,.contentModuleTable{border:none;}
.content div a img, .content div b {display:none;}
.contentModule div a img, .contentModule div b {display:inline;}
</style> 
<div align="center">

<font class=name>futuretxgovernor</font> <br><br><br>
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=paperlilies">Layout By Simone's CSS </a>

<br><br>
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/customise/" class="nav">customise</a>
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/games/arcade.phtml" class="nav">games</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/explore.phtml" class="nav">explore</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/nf.phtml" class="nav">news</a> 
<a href="hhttp://www.neopets.com/petcentral.phtml" class="nav">central</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/neoboards/index.phtml" class="nav">boards</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/objects.phtml" class="nav">shop</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/mall/index.phtml" class="nav">nc mall</a> 
</div>
<p><a  href="http://www.neopets.com/~JohnathanBrisby">wish list</a> | <a  href="http://www.neopets.com/~YbsirbNahtanhoj">art gallery</a> </p>
<div align="left">
Goals:
<p></p>
[ ] ultimate riches
<br>
[ ] all dream pets
<br>
[ ] custom lookups for all pets
<br>
[ ] background stories for all pets
<br>
[ ] win every contest trophy
<br>
[ ] collect all available avatars
<br>
[ ] earn johnathanbrisby the neopian book award
<br>

 

[silverxkey]

At his point it is such a mess that I am content not to have custom pages anymore, but when I go to edit my user lookup it tells me "We cannot update your personal information." So not only have you made my code not work, but you have made it so that I have to have and ugly mess of unusable code sitting at the top of my user lookup? Well thanks a lot TNT.

 

Update: Well it finally let me change it to fix the coding changes, but it still doesn't look quite right and I'm not sure how. I hid my code in spoiler tags, so as not to clog up the forum, but if someone who knows more than me could take a look at it I'd be very appreciative. I just want to get rid of the neopets header bar.

 

 

<style>
#header,#footer, hr, #userneohome{display:none}
p,td,body, table, tr, font, a, .medText
{font-family: arial;
color: #000;
font-size: 8pt;}
#userneohome img {width:100px;height:100px; }
i
{color: #000;
font-style: normal;font-weight: normal;}
u{color:#aaa;border-bottom:2px solid #000; text-decoration:none;}
#main{width:600px; background:none; left:10px;top:50px;border:none;}
#userneopets img {width:95px; height:95px;}

body {background-color:#000;}

#userinfo .contentModuleContent{
background-image:url(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6982/shieldtdn.png);
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-position:top right;
}
#userinfo .medText img {visibility:hidden;}
#userinfo .medText table table img {visibility:visible;}

a:link, a:active, a:visited, b, a
{color: #000;
text-transform: lowercase; font-weight:normal;}
a:hover b, a:hover
{text-transform: lowercase; color:#999;}

a.nav, a.nav:visited, a.nav:active{text-align:center;text-transform:lowercase;background:#000;color:#fff;letter-spacing:-1px; font: 14pt arial; width:83px;padding-bottom:4px;padding-top:4px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px; }
a.nav:hover{background:#efefef;color:#000;}
.name
{color:#000; font-style:italic;
font-size: 26pt; font-family:georgia; letter-spacing:-3px; line-height:2px;}
.contentModuleHeader, .contentModuleHeaderAlt
{
border: none;background-color: #fff;color: #fff;font-size: 7.5 pt; line-height:4pt;border-bottom: 2px solid #f0f0f0; }.contentModuleContent
{
border: none; width:500px;}
#usertrophies img {width:30px; height:30px;}
#content{width:600px;background-color:#fff; border:none;}
.contentModule,.contentModuleTable{border:none;}
.content div a img, .content div b {display:none;}
.contentModule div a img, .contentModule div b {display:inline;}
</style> 
<div align="center">

<font class=name>futuretxgovernor</font> <br><br><br>
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/userlookup.phtml?user=paperlilies">Layout By Simone's CSS </a>

<br><br>
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/customise/" class="nav">customise</a>
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/games/arcade.phtml" class="nav">games</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/explore.phtml" class="nav">explore</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/nf.phtml" class="nav">news</a> 
<a href="hhttp://www.neopets.com/petcentral.phtml" class="nav">central</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/neoboards/index.phtml" class="nav">boards</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/objects.phtml" class="nav">shop</a> 
<a href="http://www.neopets.com/mall/index.phtml" class="nav">nc mall</a> 
</div>
<p><a  href="http://www.neopets.com/~JohnathanBrisby">wish list</a> | <a  href="http://www.neopets.com/~YbsirbNahtanhoj">art gallery</a> </p>
<div align="left">
Goals:
<p></p>
[ ] ultimate riches
<br>
[ ] all dream pets
<br>
[ ] custom lookups for all pets
<br>
[ ] background stories for all pets
<br>
[ ] win every contest trophy
<br>
[ ] collect all available avatars
<br>
[ ] earn johnathanbrisby the neopian book award
<br>

 

If you log out and back in that usually fixes the issue with not being able to update your UL. If that doesn't work, clear your cache.