categories box on top of other sideboxes

Hi,

I've got a problem. My categories dropdown box is on top of any sidebox with lowest sort order, like it isn't counted as a categories box.

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// $Id: tpl_categories_css.php 2004/06/23 00:00:00 DrByteZen Exp $


//
    
  	$content = "";
		
    $content .= '<div id="light_menu" class="menu">';
    $content .= $menulist; // see the modules/sideboxes/YOURTEMPLATE/categories_css.php for this

  if (SHOW_CATEGORIES_BOX_SPECIALS == 'true' or SHOW_CATEGORIES_BOX_PRODUCTS_NEW == 'true') {
    $content .= '<ul><li><a href=""> </a></li></ul>';  // insert a blank line/box in the menu
    if (SHOW_CATEGORIES_BOX_SPECIALS == 'true') {
      $content .= '<ul><li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_SPECIALS) . '">' . CATEGORIES_BOX_HEADING_SPECIALS . '</a></li></ul>';
    }
    if (SHOW_CATEGORIES_BOX_PRODUCTS_NEW == 'true') {
      $content .= '<ul><li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_NEW) . '">' . CATEGORIES_BOX_HEADING_WHATS_NEW . '</a></li></ul>';
    }
    if (SHOW_CATEGORIES_BOX_FEATURED_PRODUCTS == 'true') {
      $show_this = $db->Execute("select products_id from " . TABLE_FEATURED . " where status= 1 limit 1");
      if ($show_this->RecordCount() > 0) {
        $content .= '<ul><li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_FEATURED_PRODUCTS) . '">' . CATEGORIES_BOX_HEADING_FEATURED_PRODUCTS . '</a></li></ul>';
      }
    }
    if (SHOW_CATEGORIES_BOX_PRODUCTS_ALL == 'true') {
      $content .= '<ul><li><a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCTS_ALL) . '">' . CATEGORIES_BOX_HEADING_PRODUCTS_ALL . '</a></li></ul>';
    }
  }
  $content .= '</div>';

	$title = '';

// May want to add ............onfocus="this.blur()"...... to each A HREF to get rid of the dotted-box around links when they're clicked.
// just parse the $content string and insert it into each A HREF tag

?>

I don't know if anything is changed, it looks all pretty standard, but please take a look, and tell me how I can have it to act as a sidebox....

• Can't provide a link, server offline -

That sounds like what would happen if you had position: absolute; for #categories {} in your stylesheet. Without seeing the site, or at least the stylesheets, all we can do is guess.
For this sidebox mod, the id would be different, maybe #categories_css {}.

YES THANK YOU!

I found where it said position: absolute; with google chroom inspect element:cool::smile:

From what I understand, I need to integrate this dropdown menu in the menu header(divheadbg)

An example of what I need to accomplish: http://tinyurl.com/36m86ss

check out the header and then the dropdown see all categories. Any clue on how to do this?