By ludo1960 on

Hello,

I've got a block in a custom region that displays dynamic content. However it appears beneath certain other page content (only in IE!) So i figured I could set the z-index level in the CSS for the region, nope that didn't work! Then I thought, set the weight for the block, I go to admin/build/block and just for a second a "Weight" column appears... then disappears! Hmmm so how do set the weight of a block?

TYIA

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nevets’s picture

nevets commented

You set the weight by drag and drop, but that determines the order the blocks appear in a region.

Without a link to the site it is hard to provide and answer but I would venture you are positioning/floating the block/region and not clearing space for it.

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

Eh...err..em!! I have only 1 custom region and 1 block therein, defined in the theme.info file and given it a space in the page.tpl. As there is only 1 block the problem can't be one of block weight then, but of IE CSS usage

The CSS for the new region is:

.region {
float: right;
margin: 0 0 1.8em 0;
z-index: 10000;
}

There has to be some "trick" specific to IE to get this to display correctly, any ideas?

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

I am guessing your page.tpl.php has code like

<div id="region">
  <?php print  $region; ?>
</div>

If this correct, I would trying changing the div line to <div id="region" class="clear-block">, save the file and do a page refresh.

ludo1960’s picture

ludo1960 commented

OK tried that (good guess!) now my dynamic region is at a lower z-level than before ie text on page is above my dynamic stuff. Only in IE tho! Mr Gates can consider himself removed from my xmas list!

nevets’s picture

nevets commented

Without a link to the page I am hard pressed to provide other suggestions.

psymes’s picture

psymes commented

After much searching I found an answer here:

http://drupal.org/node/250853

To prevent to Weight column from disappearing when the admin/build/block pages loads, you have to disable JavaScript in your browser. That did the trick for me.