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[lunarview22 Friend lunarview22Join date: December 2011Posts: 30Downloads:2Uploads:1 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

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Hello

I’m not a newbie, but I feel like it everytime I start working on a different template and wrestling with its peculiarities.

So right out of the box I have a question, and I would really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction here, or check my work, or tell me that I am doing this all wrong.

So I just want to put a search box at the top of my page. No problem, except the search position in the template doesn’t work, so I am using social position instead. (I’ve opened a seperate thread on that question).

Now the search box within the black bar of the social template position is not lined up evenly with the Search Image of the magnifying glass. No problem, I just need to find the CSS and move it.

So, I use Firebug and it tells me that the CSS is in the file called css_ff63a.css. I see the nice padding-bottom, padding-top lines etc, play around with these, and they allow me to re-align the search box. So far so good.

Ok, fine, so I go and find that file. Now I guess I have to set this up as a template override….correct?

But my main question is this: when I open up that file in cpanel File Manager Code editor it comes up as one long unformatted horrible slab of code….and what is more I cannot locate the padding-bottom padding top etc lines as they came up in firefox.

Why wouldnt that CSS page come up in a nice formatted display like most pages do?

And why can’t I find the lines that appear in firebug? maybe it’s because I’m not looking hard enough, but even searching in page doesnt seem to find it.

So here I am, just trying to get the search box to appear, and buried 3 layers deep in workarounds now just to get it to display nice.

obviously, I must be doing something wrong. Can someone please review what I have written above, and set me on the correct path.

thank you.

[TomC Moderator TomCJoin date: October 2014Posts: 14077Downloads:58Uploads:137 Thanks: 948 Thanked: 3155 times in 2495 posts]

#519406

Sounds like the easiest way to go about adding an additional element like this would be to . . . .

. . . . . CREATE A NEW MODULE POSITION

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[lunarview22 Friend lunarview22Join date: December 2011Posts: 30Downloads:2Uploads:1 Thanks: 12 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#519458

thank you for the reply.

i would expect that making a search box appear should take me about 10 seconds.

but you are suggesting that the easiest way is for me to create a new module position?

I would really prefer not to have to spend the next few days working through the fine detail of getting all this correct. I’m not trying to completely redesign the template. i just want the search box to come up in the usual place. without fuss. without having to spend days on it.

in any case, this was not the question I asked. the question was: is the procedure I have outlined above correct or incorrect for doing what I have said I am attempting? have I grasped the steps correctly to make the kind of change I am outlining above, or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I will have lots of small adjustments to make as I proceed to build the site, and i want to understand if working with those css files like css_ff63a etc is the correct way to be handling these kind of adjustments.

i apologise if this question is stupid, but i’ve learned with joomla that if you don’t ask stupid questions you can get stuck for days going roundd and round. so, i ask stupid questions now and save my sanity.

thanks for your response in any case, but I do hope that someone can address my specific query.

thanks again

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#519474

Please have a look at my another post. Hope that helps.

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