White flash when switching forums and pages [SOLVED]

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:04 pm

UPDATE: The right answer is here
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I'm not sure if this is an issue with phpBB itself or the theme I'm using. Can someone help me understand what's happening?
I've already contacted the theme's author, but haven't heard from him yet so I decided to come here as well.
Note: this is NOT happening when using Chrome or Edge. It happens when using FireFox, Opera, Safari, and Vivaldi.

So I'm building my forum here:
https://forum.iamdannywyatt.com/ (still a demo)

When I go from forum to forum or topics, I get this "white flash", because it seems that the theme is not loaded right away.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe that when I installed the theme, it wasn't doing this, so I'm not sure if there was something I changed that is causing this?

If you go to the theme's demo, you will see that this doesn't happen:
http://planetstyles.net/demo/milk/3.3/2/

I was wondering if anyone has ever experienced this with other themes, or if this could be something related to phpBB itself?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Post by **_Vinny_** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:51 am

For styles not obtained from this site you would need to seek support from where you obtained the style.

david63 · Post by **david63** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:26 am

Do you have the problem with the default prosilver style?

Talk19Zehn · Post by **Talk19Zehn** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:35 am

Hello, test-tool here: Firefox V_101.0 - I could imagine without obligation that the mistake for background-color occurs in the short term, because in colours.css also for body

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html, body {
	color: rgba(0,0,0,.4);
	background-color: #ECF0F1;
}

was documented.

Or the declaration in the base.css reacts for a fraction of time:

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body {
	color: #333333;
	background-color: #ffffff;
}

This could possibly be the cause, so that the class "fd_dark" is overwritten in the short term: overall_header.html
<html dir="ltr" class="fd_dark" lang="en-us"> for a fraction of time.

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html.fd_dark {
	background-color: #101216 !important;
}

Perhaps they are clues that will help. It is possible that the tool did not recognise all CSS reactions or that I have just lost my way. I'm sure Christian has a solution, ...

Regards

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:17 pm

_Vinny_ wrote: Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:51 am For styles not obtained from this site you would need to seek support from where you obtained the style.

Yes, as I mentioned, I already contacted the person, but since it's behaving differently based on the browser, I wasn't sure if this could be an issue with phpBB. The weird thing is, their demo doesn't do this, regardless of the browser...

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:35 pm

david63 wrote: Sun Jun 05, 2022 5:26 am Do you have the problem with the default prosilver style?

I just installed the prosilver dark version (since the issue would be more noticeable on a dark theme, I guess), and no. It doesn't flash.
What's weird is that this is not an issue with all browsers.
There is another reply here and I will see if I can understand what's being said and if I can find the solution.
Thanks!

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:55 pm

Talk19Zehn wrote: Sun Jun 05, 2022 8:35 am Perhaps they are clues that will help. It is possible that the tool did not recognise all CSS reactions

Even though I'm familiar with CSS and HTML, I'm not an "expert" per se, so I couldn't really understand what you meant...
Can you suggest a fix so I can try it and see if it works?
I don't mind changing the CSS, even if I have to make these changes again if the theme is updated in the future.
As long as the problem goes away, I can always have a note on my computer with the changes I've made and make them again.

Thank you for your time and help

Talk19Zehn · Post by **Talk19Zehn** » Sun Jun 05, 2022 3:24 pm

If the browser tool (* 05.06.2022, 10:35) has not been lost, the class "fd_dark" was not loaded via the class "body" (but via HTML). Or at least the class "fd_dark" for "body" was not found.

There was apparently a statement missing for the class "body" - is/was that correct?

*) The tool in Firefox did not find "body" in the CSS "fd_dark".

Prosilver Dark loads the CSS elsewhere ... (I think it's a small but subtle difference) and therefore the designs are not necessarily comparable.

BTW: The stylesheet is processed in the order in which it is loaded or linked.

Please contact Christian's support.

Best wishes ...

Edit:
Spelling correction ...

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Mon Jun 06, 2022 12:23 am

Yeah, that's still a bit confusing based on my low knowledge of CSS...
I will wait for Christian to reply to my email and see how that goes.

Once again, I appreciate your time and help!

Lumpy Burgertushie · Post by **Lumpy Burgertushie** » Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:27 am

find in the css files where it says body background color: ffffff and remove it.

robert

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:26 am

Lumpy Burgertushie wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 2:27 am find in the css files where it says body background color: ffffff and remove it.

robert

Thank you for your reply.
I did that, but unfortunately it didn't solve the issue.
I believe the issue here is not the color itself, but more of an issue with the code, because it seems that what's happening is that the forum is not reading the CSS for a split second, or something like that. Even if I remove that line or I change the color of the background, it will not make any difference, because it seems that the forum is having a problem reading the CSS or something like that.

I've contacted the theme's author and I'm waiting for him to get back to me.

Appreciate your time and help anyway

Post by **Hanakin** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:22 pm

by white flash do you mean a blank screen with the loading icon?

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:04 pm

Hanakin wrote: Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:22 pm by white flash do you mean a blank screen with the loading icon?

No, like this:

Gumboots · Post by **Gumboots** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:16 pm

It's not something to do with phpBB itself. If it does not happen with the Milk demo on Christian's site, my best guess is that it's the result of something you changed.

It's commonly known as FOUC (Flash Of Unstyled Content) and yes, it is due to processing of the CSS being delayed slightly on page load. Christian will probably be able to nail it down pretty quickly, since he knows the style's coding intimately. If you don't want to wait for him, I'd be looking at any files you have edited since you installed it.

Danny Wyatt · Post by **Danny Wyatt** » Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:30 pm

Christian said it was due to some kind of feature he added. I tried to contact him again, but still no response.
I think the demo and the version he sells are not exactly the same. Even the colors are slightly different. I don't think it's my files, because I just added a simple css file with custom styles to change some text colors and stuff. And even when I renamed the files to disable them temporarily, it was still there. Thing is, in Chrome, it happens sometimes, but it seems that chrome is caching the css so once I visit a page, it doesn't do it, whereas FireFox does on all pages.

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