Slideshow obscures drop-down menu items [#1513526]

I know this is an issue that has come up before but I have a particular variation of the issue here I think. Having tired various options I finally thought I had fixed this by adding a custom CSS class to the slideshow View and setting z-index to 0. (Higher than 0 and the menu was still obscured, lower than 0, the slideshow disappeared).

HOWEVER, I found that this fix only worked when I was logged in as administrator (user/1). For other users the problem still persists. This is what I am at a loss to understand and would welcome some advice on - why it should only work for the user/1 account.

The issue occurs with Chrome, Firefox and IE browsers.

Theme is Zeropoint.

Many thanks

Comments

Comment #1

thebeepseal CreditAttribution: thebeepseal commented 8 April 2012 at 21:19

No comments on this? Do I need to ask the question elsewhere?

Thanks

Comment #2

Kevin Morse CreditAttribution: Kevin Morse commented 4 May 2012 at 08:38

Make sure your CSS selector is targeting the right elements. Try using Chrome's Inspect element or Firebug to add the z-index to different elements and you should be able to figure it out.

Also check that the z-index of your menu isn't already set to something.

Comment #3

thebeepseal CreditAttribution: thebeepseal commented 12 May 2012 at 13:59

This is the approach I've already taken Kevin, and appeared to come up with a solution. But my question really was - why is it ONLY working for user/1 or, actually, any user in the administrator role). Someone on IRC suggested it may have something to do with the Admin Toolbar div and to test this out by putting a dummy empty div in my template file to replicate the effect - but this had no effect. Neither does enabling the toolbar for roles other than administrator solve the problem. So it seems to be some other aspect of the administrator role that is controlling this. I've been through the permissions table but I can't find any likely candidates. So I remain baffled.