Allow admins to specify a css selector to attach the content type selector to

The output for content type selector is rendered in the help section of the page, using hook_help(). So maybe this is related to the theme? Have you tried with Garland?

Can you see any javascript error on the page?

Ah, good to know.

The module code is so small that I didn't thought about adding a note about hook_help(). I'll see if I can add something to the project page, just in case. ;-)

Hi!
Congrats for the useful module!. I have a problem showing this in Zen_classic theme. I've checked and in the node.tpl.php appears:

print $help;

But the switcher does not show.

Lost it too when I changed from Garland to Artisteer-generated theme.

Make sure your theme displays the #tab-wrapper div.
Content Type Selector won't display itself unless it finds that DOM element.

In the Acquia Prosper theme, (in which the selector wasn't displaying,) I found where $tabs were being printed:

<?php print theme('grid_block', $tabs, 'content-tabs'); ?>

And wrapped it with <div id="tabs-wrapper>:

<?php if ($tabs): ?>
  <div id="tabs-wrapper" class="clear-block">
    <?php print theme('grid_block', $tabs, 'content-tabs'); ?>
  </div>
<?php  endif; ?>

(Note that I also had to tweak the theme styles, as, even though I could see the selector I couldn't click it -- the tab bar was being displayed atop.)

I'm re-opening this issue as a request that the module docs also make note of this.

Oh, I see.

I'm marking this issue as "needs work". Not only related to documentation, but maybe there's a better way to control the visibility of the select box that is more compatible and/or adaptable to other themes. I'll try to think about it as soon as I have a bit of time.

Hi you all,

I confirm that it was not appearing on my theme until I discovered that even zen theme was not showing the type selector widget. Finally I've realized that garland was embedding the $help variable inside that id="tabs-wrapper", which in fact is quite a particular way to mark it. In my theme I just expected to have a

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Uhmm, well, it's not enough to tell on your module page that print $help; is required, but also that it has to be inside some div with the "tabs-wrapper" identifier in order to be properly displayed :-)

Thanks anyway for that little helper :-)

Confirming the issue for the admin administration module which is based on the Rubik theme; that one is based on the Tao base theme. I'm using Rubik/Tao as administration theme.

Greetings, -asb

Issue applies also to the TNT theme Magazeen.

Here is a patch that adds a settings screen where the admin can set the css selector to use when adding the content type selector to the page.

This way the admin can specify a place that suits their theme.

The patch should apply to 6.x-1.2 and 6.x-1.x-dev cleanly.

The content_type_selector.admin.inc file might be overkill for such a small module but i figured I'd go with the standard.

Marked #840758: Selector does not appear in the theme of admin module as a duplicate of this issue.

As an example, I am using the rootcandy theme and for the new css selector option I use:

#content-wrap .content-in

Which works pretty nicely.

In Rubik, I attached it to #page-title. Works pretty well. Thanks for the patch, @rooby.

Not the best title but it gets the point across.