Tabs in admin interface not functioning properly

[chimmyc]

Some background: I'm working off of the latest version (1.0.6), using PowWeb for hosting (so relatively modern versions of php etc.)

My issue is that the tabs in the admin interface aren't functioning as they should. Rather than displaying only the content specific to the active tab, the content for all of the tabs are displayed below.

As far as I can tell, this is purely a CSS issue. I had modified the stylesheet, so I replaced it with a copy of the original and it still had the same issue, however.

The 'shortcuts' box on the right doesn't function properly either - the tab is visible, but clicking on it doesn't do anything. If I remember correctly, it was behaving this way out of the box.

I've tried searching the forums (and Google) for an answer, but if this has already been asked an answered I'd be fine with a link to the post where this was addressed.

Thanks,
Jakob

[calguy1000]

exactly which module is disbehaving.... which menu uption are you choosing after the main admin screen, or, is there a difference?

[chimmyc]

It seems to be in any area of the interface where the tab menus are set up, such as those in menu manager and module manager. I've also tried installing some extra modules (Album, Calendar) and they're behaving the same way.

Maybe I'm just having a 'moment', but I'm unclear as to how the tabs are being handled... whether it's through css or javascript, and what in the code is being used to call them.

[chimmyc]

So I did a little more poking around tonight and found the dynamic_tabs folder within lib, which seems to be controlling that portion of the site. I re-uploaded the entire lib folder just to see if anything was off, but that didn't seem to do it.

Does anyone have an idea on what's 'breaking' this part of the interface?

[chimmyc]

Figured it out! For some reason the Includes directory, which has the javascript controlling the tabs, was missing from the themes/default directory. I uploaded that and everything kicked in.

[calguy1000]

Yeah, many of the FTP clients suck.  (except the command line ones).  it's often a pain to upload a large quantity of files, and you need to check to make sure everything was uploaded correctly.