Aligning product description to the right of image

**sparklytreasures** · 29 Jan 2009, 12:49 AM

This has been causing me much pain over the past few weeks, i have done a good search of previous posts, applied changes, removed changes etc.

I want to have the product description aligned to the right of my product images and not sitting underneath as it currently does.

I am using the darkness template, have installed lightbox, checked the css against the classic template. When i view my site in the classic template it aligns correctly, but i cant see what is different in the css files for both.

I have tried to change it in the tpl_product_info_display.php file but it doesnt change anything (so ive gone back to the original file)

Im not sure how to link to my site as its not live yet, i notice that you can input the code, but im not sure you put that into a thread without just copy and pasting it.

If anyone can show me the way i would be extremely grateful.

**MagicMan** · 29 Jan 2009, 04:58 AM

I was able to do this with my BottlesandFoamers.com web site.

I had to turn off the right column though because the text looked too squished.

This is what you need to do. When you enter the product description you need to use the body tag html

<body> at the beginning of the description.
</body> at the very end of your description.

I hope this helps.

**sparklytreasures** · 29 Jan 2009, 08:50 AM

Thankyou very much for your suggestion, but unfortuatnly it hasnt worked

**gjh42** · 29 Jan 2009, 11:19 AM

There should never be more than one set of <body> tags on a site page: the ones built into the code at the very beginning and end.

Does your stylesheet have a "float: left;" in the #productMainImage rule? Check this vs. the classic or template_default stylesheet. The float is what enables the text to flow around the image.

**sparklytreasures** · 29 Jan 2009, 11:57 AM

Im afraid that does nothing either !

**MagicMan** · 29 Jan 2009, 02:05 PM

OK my bad,

I removed the body tags and it did not change anything.

It was not the body tag. It was a table that I created.

<table COLS=1 WIDTH="450" >
<tr>
<td> Before the text

Your text

</td>
</tr>
</table> at the end of the text.

Try this.

**CharInLasVegas** · 29 Jan 2009, 03:51 PM

I was having the same problem, I finally got my description right aligned by using this mod:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=672

You can then tweak the layout from there. There's a support thread for it here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69672

I'm still working on it, but you can see here that I've got the description, add to cart, etc. right aligned.

**sparklytreasures** · 29 Jan 2009, 06:09 PM

Magic man, i tried it but all it did was box up my text, it didnt move it. Thankyou anyways.

**sparklytreasures** · 29 Jan 2009, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by CharInLasVegas

I was having the same problem, I finally got my description right aligned by using this mod:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=672

You can then tweak the layout from there. There's a support thread for it here:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69672

I'm still working on it, but you can see here that I've got the description, add to cart, etc. right aligned.

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou Char, took a bit of tweeking but its now doing exactly what i wanted it to.

**CharInLasVegas** · 29 Jan 2009, 07:03 PM

Oh good :)

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