Can’t edit text, can’t click into elements

  • Resolved formos

    (@formos)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    I’m running an older version of Visual Composer (5.0.1) which I cannot update to the latest version. My situation might be kind of unique. I can’t update the plugin because that will require more updates to other parts of the site, and this is a time-sensitive change I need to make today.

    I need to be able to make changes on a page, but when I click or hover over the text element I need to edit, there is no response from within the editor.

    When I hover over an image next to the text I want to edit, I can see some controls pop up for that, but not for the text element beside it.

    This is difficult to explain, but basically there seems to be an issue with this older version where some text elements can’t be clicked into for editing.

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  • Thread Starter formos

    (@formos)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    I’m willing to try updating the plugin, but I’m pretty certain that will break the site’s layout and cause a whole lot of extra hours of fixing.

    Thread Starter formos

    (@formos)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    Also I can add text blocks, but as soon as I do, they become un-editable.

    Here is the site I’m working with: https://ehotelgroup.com/

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by formos.
    Thread Starter formos

    (@formos)

    6 years, 3 months ago

    I figured it out. I’ll leave my solution here in case anyone else is in a similar (very very unique) situation of using an older version of VC (5.0.1) and an older theme which is definitely deprecated (Themesy).

    Right-click and inspect element where clicking seems to be disabled. Look for .th-row or possibly some other CSS named element. Disable all CSS on that element – who’s rules will look something similar to below. You’ll want to just uncheck all in dev tools. This will allow the VC editor to behave as expected.

    position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
right: 0;
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 0;
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 3 months ago by formos.
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