A couple questions surrounding the Shipping Estimator...
I had an issue with the popup Shipping Estimator, whereby my site's background image was being included in the popup, making it impossible to read the text. I found and tried all the forum CSS solutions for this problem by setting the background-color property of #popupShippingEstimator and the .shippingEstimatorWrapper to #FFFFFF, etc. This somewhat resolved the problem, but then the site's background image was still displaying in the popup window for the few seconds it takes the shipping estimator to load, then the background would change to white, at which point I was able to see and enter my country, state, and zip info. The only forum suggestion I did not try was creating a white.gif image and setting that as a background image for the popup - seemed like a band-aid workaround.
To me, having my site's striped background image load in the popup for a few seconds before going away gave it a bit of a broken feel, so I decided to instead try the shipping estimator in-line on the shopping cart page through the Admin settings.
As it turns out, I'm liking the in-line cart option better than the popup, with one exception: when the cart page initially loads (so, no entries yet made into Country, State, and Zip fields), the first two rows of the #shippingEstimatorTable are displayed (the row stating that "Shipping quotes are based on..." and "Available Shipping Methods"). Of course, with no destination info entered, no rates are displayed, as would be expected.
I would think that only the Country/State/Zip fields (and Update button) should be displayed when going to the Cart page, with with no part of the Shipping Estimator table visible until after Country/State/Zip information is input by the customer. DivaVocals posted a similar question back in August regarding eliminating the shipping table header rows, but the scenario was a little different than mine, and I couldn't get the solution to work.
So:
- How would I change the in-line Shipping Estimator so that only the destination entry fields are displayed until input is submitted, and
- Does anyone know how I could resolve the popup background image issue I described, as I would still like to get that working smoothly.
Thanks in advance,
-DBB1
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