Workaround for the grey comment button!

[fiddlingfrog]

Ever since the new default comment scheme came out last December, there have been scores of people complaining that they've been unable to comment because the button would remain greyed-out and unclickable. Unfortunately, there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to who is affected by this bug so it's been especially hard to fix

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[snowgrouse]

Thanks for this. It seems to disable the icon selection menu for me, though, so I can only ever use my default icon:/. (ETA: I'm on Firefox.)

[fiddlingfrog]

Do you mean that the userpic selector won't work at all, or does it not display the userpic you chose? If the latter, there are some problems right now with the userpic selector that would be there even without this script. Namely, it seems that you can't pick a userpic with more than one keyword, and you can't pick a userpic that has keywords that contain some punctuation.

[snowgrouse]

No, I mean the menu with my userpics doesn't show up when I click on the box that displays my default userpic. (Not that I'm a fan of the hovering menu thing in the first place--much prefer the old drop-down box). Before I installed this script, I'd just dropped a comment on a friend's LJ and she used the new default comments page and managed to pick an appropriate icon, so it worked before. I disabled Greasemonkey and the menu worked again. Most of the time I have to keep Greasemonkey disabled anyway because it seems to be the add-on causing the greyed-out comment button glitch in the first place:/.

[fiddlingfrog]

That's odd. I'm using a handful of scripts to modify LJ, mostly for the default comment pages, and it works just fine for me.

Of course, you said it was Greasemonkey that's causing your problem in the first place. Try updating all the scripts you use for LJ; it sounds like one of them is interfering with the JavaScript that is supposed to activate the button.

[sg_fignewton]

Thank you so much for this! And I followed the link to Sophie's preview fix, too.

Now if you could just point me to a script that allows me to select an icon instead of only using my default one... :)

Thanks again for this!

[c_eagle]

This may be asking a bit... and no worries if ya can't or don't have time... but, I was able to use this just great on my Win7 test box!... I have a pretty up-to-date FireFox on there.... but upgrading FF on my old Vista box bred a host of bad issues, so I had to roll it back...
So.... is there a chance you code this to run on FireFox 2 ?
Greasemonkey needs a higher version of FF to run...

Like I said, no prob if it's a hassle...
Thanks again for the help previously!

[fiddlingfrog]

Unfotunately, this script requires a JavaScript class that doesn't run on Firefox 2. If you could at least upgrade to FF 3, I could make a bookmarklet you could use in lieu of Greasemonkey.

[fiddlingfrog]

Okay, I wrote up instructions for using this as a bookmarklet; it's in the entry under a spoiler tag so I don't scare anybody with a mass of code Try it out and let me know if it works.

To be honest, I kind of like the bookmarklet better than the Greasemonkey script. Just click on the bookmarklet and the button appears suddenly.

[c_eagle]

great thinking!... wow, yeah.. bookmarklets are great!!... I will try it when I get home.... thanks for the help!

[ddaannii]

you have saved me from being unable to comment(!!!), but I can not reply to another members comment-- only make a separate one myself...

any ideas??

[fiddlingfrog]

What browser and OS do you use?

I imagine it's probably interference from some other script that you're running. Can you list any other scripts you use that affect LJ?

[ddaannii]

I'm running firefox 14.0.1 on a new imac.. the only scripts I am running are DisConnect and the Comment button I just installed.

When I reply to a comment it will show up in the right place (under the previous comment) and then jump to the bottom of the page as if it was its own comment

[fiddlingfrog]

Try disabling DisConnect; the Facebook/Twitter checkboxes are gone from default comment pages, so it really should be updated to not be running at all on those pages.

If that doesn't work I'll look into it more when I get home tonight.

[cczy]

"Preview button Greasemonkey script"

It's nice, thank you.