Elemental - Container Layout wont edit issue
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Hi there
Firstly i will hold my hands up and confess i am a newbie to websites and coding so bear with me!
I have used the Elemental theme on the website and it seems to become slightly offset when editing things. I have managed to cope with it and I am just having to guess where the tabs are (usually about a half an inch below where the tabs actually are)....
When it comes to editing the Containers however, I simply cant change or move the column widths..........
I have tried to show what is happening in the snapshot attached.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
Any help is appreciated.
Firstly i will hold my hands up and confess i am a newbie to websites and coding so bear with me!
I have used the Elemental theme on the website and it seems to become slightly offset when editing things. I have managed to cope with it and I am just having to guess where the tabs are (usually about a half an inch below where the tabs actually are)....
When it comes to editing the Containers however, I simply cant change or move the column widths..........
I have tried to show what is happening in the snapshot attached.
Does anyone have a solution for this?
Any help is appreciated.
Hi John
Using this theory - I know I haven't edited the theme and the fact that it's affecting all pages would you presume then that there's something in the header that appears on all pages that could be throwing something out?
Kelly
Using this theory - I know I haven't edited the theme and the fact that it's affecting all pages would you presume then that there's something in the header that appears on all pages that could be throwing something out?
Kelly
If you have, for example, added some HTML to the header or footer, that would be where to look.
If you didn't edit the theme code directly, there could be code inside a block you've added that is causing the issue, similar to how John described.
You could test this theory by making a page that has no blocks added to it...
Try going to the sitemap, make a new blank page. See if the problem persists, if so, it could be a block thats within a global area. You can try deleting the global area blocks to test the theory, but I'm unsure how global areas are affected concerning version control and being able to roll back your site to how it was before you deleted anything from the global areas.
You could test this theory by making a page that has no blocks added to it...
Try going to the sitemap, make a new blank page. See if the problem persists, if so, it could be a block thats within a global area. You can try deleting the global area blocks to test the theory, but I'm unsure how global areas are affected concerning version control and being able to roll back your site to how it was before you deleted anything from the global areas.
Thanks for the help....
I'm going to go investigate now... I just feel I don't understand enough of the functionality of website design... so apologies for being slow!
Kelly
I'm going to go investigate now... I just feel I don't understand enough of the functionality of website design... so apologies for being slow!
Kelly
1. You have added some css that has wider scope than you anticipated and it is throwing things off.
2. You have edited the theme and broken the bit that adds an offset for the dashboard bar.
3. You have added some html and the tags are not matched. So you have a missing start or end tag. That in turn throws out the rendering of the dashboard bar.