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Using J2.5 with JA Elastica I am building a site with most pages following a single model.

There is a content element from an Article and a module using a form. Other elements like login and mini adverts for other pages of the site are modules which appear on the same size. The content and the form are both two columns wide, the others are all one column wide.

All works fine but rather mysteriously. What determines which element goes where on the page. In particular when the only added element is a one column login module it will sometimes appear above the form and sometimes below the content. Is there a way that I can control where it appears?

I looked on the masonry site which is extremely informative but appears to give not opportunity for feedback or questions.

Thanks

Tony D

Each of the images shows a part of a page with only three modules on it. I cannot see why in one case they are arranged one way and not in the other.

TD

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[mountainman Friend mountainmanJoin date: April 2011Posts: 65Downloads:0Uploads:18 Thanks: 10 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

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Maybe this is the solution. At least it hasn’t broken ins some testing I have done.

On the module manager page there is an order column which, for my site, a majority of modules in order position 1. When I moved a module down the order using the little arrows it would move further down the page. However, if you then tried to move a second module the previously demoted one jumped back.

The solution to that was to allocate the module to a specific but unoccupied order position when the whole list is given unique numbers. Then you can play with the little arrows and higher in the order modules appear higher up the page.

The confusion occurs while lots of modules have the same order number and masonry does not know how you would like things.

If this is not correct, please tell me (us)

Thanks

Tony Davis

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