moving sideboxes around

[familynow]

Hi.

I recently installed crafty syntax and it's working well so far. I'm just wondering how to change the position of the sidebox.

I've read various posts on it but I can't seem to find a specific explanation/tutorial on how to position sideboxes in places other than their defaults. It would be nice to know for future reference. But in this case I want the box to go from the left column up by the shipping ad / currency boxes.

some bg info:

ZC 1.3.9h
CSLH 2.14.6

[dbltoe]

The layout boxes controller in the admin under Tools will help you maneuver the boxes. Just change left, right, or sort order as needed.

[familynow]

Yeah. I've already played with those...I can move the box by reordering with the numbers and do left/right but I want it up in the header beside the shipping and currency.

[dbltoe]

Perhaps a link to your site could help find an answer. Something like yoursiteDOTcom if you don't want the search engines to pick it up.

[stevesh]

One way to place a sidebox in the header is to use absolute positioning. You can't change the width of that sidebox from the width of the others in that column, though.

[familynow]

I read that somewhere but didn't understand which css file to edit and how to apply it in the div.

[familynow]

I think the width limitation won't be a problem for this particular box.

[stevesh]

If the sidebox has (or can have) its own rule in the stylesheet, it would go something like this:

#sideboxname {position: absolute; left: XXpx; top: YYpx; }

where XX is the number of px from the left side of the header and YY is the number of px from the top of the header.

A link would let us advise more specifically.

[familynow]

Yeah. That's about where I'm at. I can't figure out if that box can have an entry and in what file it would be called from.

[familynow]

I found this in the tpl_craftysyntax_sidebox.php file. Would this be where I'd refer back to the css?

--More--
/div
...skipping
$content .= '<div id="' . str_replace('_', '-', $box_id . 'Content') . '" class="craftysidebox">';
$content .= '<script type="text/javascript" src="' . $cs_link . '"></script>';
$content .= '</div>';
?>

Sorry, this might be completely clueless of me...even after years of hacking around various sites I still don't get web design very much...