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Posted by Waseemmm89 on December 25, 2012 at 4:03pm

Hi,

A brief outline of what I am doing:

I am making a book store, I created a taxonomy containing a list of authors of books that I will be selling.

So I made a dropdown containing the taxonomy list (full list of authors), and placed the dropdown in the first sidebar on the left. It appears as it should, but the size of the dropdown is too long, as I have one author with a huge name, around 60 letters, so this made the box larger, and it goes over the main content.

I usually use Firebug to make small changes to see how it would look, but its been a while since I have used Drupal and Firebug, I don't know how I can access the file so I can make the changes, what location are they in? what are they called?

Any help will be most appreciated.

Thanks
Waseemmm89

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It depends on the theme you

Posted by nevets on December 25, 2012 at 5:01pm

It depends on the theme you are using, if using a theme that comes with core it will be under 'themes', for contributed themes under 'sites/all/themes'. In both case it will be in a sub-folder with the theme name. Some themes have a css file for adding custom changes, others you would need to place in styles.css though that is not a best practice as it will be overwritten if you update the theme.

Thank you for your reply

Posted by Waseemmm89 on December 25, 2012 at 5:21pm

I figured as much, I am using the standard theme.

However, I did try modifying the theme but didn't have much look, personally I'm not good at CSS.

How would you recommend me to change the size of he dropdown?

Is there any other module I can use for drop down menus?

I have SuperFish module, but I can't seem to figure out how to add a list of authors using the Taxonomy.

Thanks :)

Use firebug to identify the

Posted by cyberdog_sk on December 25, 2012 at 9:26pm

Use firebug to identify the css rule you need to edit--or create.
Install http://drupal.org/project/css_injector and use it to apply the rule.
Make sure you disable optimise css files on the performance page and clear caches.

or.... shorten the name, how

Posted by cimo75 on December 27, 2012 at 1:30am

or.... shorten the name, how do you get the list of names? Is it a view?

Yes, I used a View

Posted by Waseemmm89 on December 27, 2012 at 4:44pm

Hi,

I did use a View to retrieve the author names.

I have noticed if I use a different theme then the drop down appears smaller, once it is clicked then it appears larger which I don't mind. I think I will need to get my head around CSS as I think I will be able to modify it to make it smaller using the CSS.