XenForo.alert Has Transparent Background

[Snog]

I'm trying to trigger the standard dropdown alert when a user clicks a link with this code...

<a href="javascript:" onclick="XenForo.alert('{xen:phrase submission_received}','',3000);document.form.submit();" />{xen:phrase clickme}</a>

It works, but for some reason the alert that drops down has a transparent background.

Am I missing something here?

 

[digitalpoint]

The background color is supposed to be transparent, but it's an image that causes the gradient looking thing... Maybe your image is missing?

It should be here:

/styles/default/xenforo/overlay/timed-message.png

 

[Snog]

For a second I thought that was it, but the image is there. So, that's not the problem.

 

[digitalpoint]

What is your site URL?

 

[Snog]

What is your site URL?

It's my offline development server. No access from the outside world.

All other alerts show properly, it's just the one triggered by the JS that comes up transparent.

 

[digitalpoint]

weird... works fine if I trigger that JS here or on my site.

 

[Snog]

weird... works fine if I trigger that JS here or on my site.

I do believe that's because you aren't actually submitting the form.

The full code looks like this..

<form name="form" action="{xen:link threads/myfunction, $thread}" method="post" class="xenForm AutoValidator" data-redirect="on">
     <a href="javascript:" onclick="XenForo.alert('{xen:phrase submission_received}','',3000);document.form.submit();" />{xen:phrase clickme}</a>
     <input type="hidden" name="myvalue" value="1" />
     <input type="hidden" name="_xfToken" value="{$visitor.csrf_token_page}" />
</form>

If I break the submit by changing 'document.form.submit()' to 'document.form1.submit()' the alert works but obviously the form isn't submitted.

If I leave it as is with the correct form name, the alert has the transparent background and the form is properly submitted.

The reason I'm trying to use XenForo.alert is when you submit a form like this (using a link to submit the form), the standard php redirect with message doesn't display the message.

 

[Snog]

I've decided to take a different approach to this. So, a fix isn't needed unless someone wants to post one for reference.