No Horizontal Scrollbar or Search in Joomla 1.5

[baldguy]

I am using the template Joomla 1.5. However, no matter what I do I cannot get the search box to appear, as it does in the preview in the templates section of this site.

A more pressing problem is that there is no horizontal scrollbar when I resize the browser. I don't know why it is not there. I've tried looking for overflow:hidden in the body tag, and I've looked for scrollbars=no, but I can't find anything that could be preventing it's display.

I'm using the General theme in the template, but the behavior is the same in all of the themes.

How can I fix these two issues?

I have noticed that there is often an alignment assignment that instead of using left,center, right, top, or bottom, uses pafkata. Could this be related to the problems I'm having?

[Costa]

HI

Can you give us a link to site to check the display etc

Regards

Costa

[baldguy]

Sure.

www.stmarkssidney.org

[baldguy]

OK, here's what I've got:

For the (missing) Search function:
In the template file html>mod_search>default.php is this code:

echo '<div id="search">';
echo '<form action="index.php" method="post">';

echo '<div class="search">';
echo $inputfield;
echo '<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_search" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="task" value="search" />';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="' .( isset( $itemid ) ? $itemid : '' ). '" />';
echo '</div>';
echo '</form>';
echo '</div>';

When I View Source, here is what appears in the code:

<div id="search">
<form action="http://localhost/Joomla1point5/" method="post">
<div class="search">
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_search" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="" />
</div>
</form>
</div>

It is apparent that in this line:
echo '<form action="index.php" method="post">';
the index.php is being changed to my path:
<form action="http://localhost/Joomla1point5/" method="post">

And, the line:
echo $inputfield;
is not processing at all

When I rename the mod_search folder, the search function appears in the site, but without the styling. When I rename it back, the search function disappears, but the styling appears. So I'm pretty sure that the problem with the search function is in this file.

Does this help?

[baldguy]

One more thing - when I View Source on the demo template on this website, this is the code that appears:

<div id="search">
<form action="index.php" method="post">
<div class="search">
<input name="searchword" id="mod_search_searchword" maxlength="20" alt="Search" class="inputbox" type="text" size="20" value="search..." onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='search...';" onfocus="if(this.value=='search...') this.value='';" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="button"/>
<input type="hidden" name="option" value="com_search" />
<input type="hidden" name="task" value="search" />
<input type="hidden" name="Itemid" value="" />
</div>
</form>
</div>