[themes] Corralling a stray button

[Laura Scott]

Have you tried defining all the markup in template.php to be included in output, and simply calling the variable in your tpl?

Laura Scott
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On May 30, 2012, at 5:46 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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