Different layout prevents editing

  • Resolved elarpa

    (@elarpa)


    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    In my multisite installation I get two different layouts in the backend menu:

    1) Some subsites show widgets with an ‘arrow down’ and buttons that work

    2) Other subsites show widget with “Add” and “Edit” (words) instead of arrows – and the buttons do not work correctly (which is the actual problem here).

    Since it is a multisite installation both WordPress and plugins are the same for all subsites.

    Does anyone know how to get back to the ‘arrow down’ layout, please?
    I need to use the buttons that are not working with the “Add” and “Edit” layout.

    Thank you in advance.

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by James Huff. Reason: moved to Networking WordPress since this is a multisite question
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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    There are two common causes of such an issue. One is a name collision between HTML elements. The related script “sees” the first and thus never gets to the second. Check the source HTML of the elements involved to confirm.

    The other is one of the elements overlays the other, so a click event is applied to the upper element and never the one below. Element size can be much larger than their physical appearance due to transparent backgrounds. Utilize your browser’s element inspector tool to investigate. Hover of the respective element’s HTML in the tool and it’ll highlight the actual size of the element, indicating its true size. Any overlap can cause elements to fail to work correctly.

    Thread Starter elarpa

    (@elarpa)

    4 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks.

    I figured out the problem:

    It was on ‘accessable mode’ (I had no idea that existed).
    When I clicked ‘deactivate accessable mode’ it came back to the arrow down layout.

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