[themes] Corralling a stray button

[Carl Wiedemann]

I think if you want anyone to be able to diagnose what is actually
happening please provide a pastebin of your template.php and the resulting
HTML.

Carl Wiedemann
Website design & development consulting | c4rl.ws
carl.wiedemann at gmail.com | skype: c4rlww



On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Jeff Greenberg <
listmail.ayendesigns at gmail.com> wrote:

> So here is what I discovered. It is something that Drupal is doing in
> rendering. Here is an uncomplicated html example that works fine in a .html
> file
>
> <div style="position:relative">
>     <div style="position: absolute;top:100;">
>         This is a test
>         <input type="button" value="test" />
>     </div>
> </div>
>
> In Drupal, my outer div is the region, which I mark as relative
> positioning in the css. The inner div is a block, which I mark as absolute
> positioning in the css. The block appears correctly. The button, whether I
> create it via $mybutton=theme(button), or create it via $mybutton="<input
> type=button>, I have tried printing the variable from the template and
> inside the block, and the markup always ends up like this:
>
> <div>
>   <div>
>      block stuff
>   </div>
> </div>
> <input>
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Carl Wiedemann <carl.wiedemann at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Global variables are not necessary and should be avoided.
>>
>> Does it *visually* appear outside of the enclosing divs, or are you
>> talking strictly about the markup? The former could indicate a mere CSS
>> error.
>>
>> Consider providing a pastebin of both the preprocess and markup to help
>> diagnose.
>>
>> Carl Wiedemann
>> Website design & development consulting | c4rl.ws
>> carl.wiedemann at gmail.com | skype: c4rlww
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Jeff Greenberg <
>> listmail.ayendesigns at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In D7, in template.php, I'm hooking preprocess_page and setting a
>>> $vars[] variable = theme_button.
>>>
>>> In a block, I have this:
>>>
>>> <?php global $signup_button; ?>
>>> <div id="signup"><?php print $signup_button; ?></div>
>>>
>>> The button appears in the page source outside of those enclosing divs.
>>>  What am I doing wrong?
>>>
>>>
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