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[–]macadoum[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Ah ! I think I understood what is the problem : on Reddit, I can apparently use an editor which create submenu automatically and this not exist on SaidIt.

I probably could also create a dropdown menu for my subsaidit in a different way. But I do not master CSS design...

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Here is how I would fix this:

  1. Right click on the broken thing and go to "inspect" or "inspect element" depending on your browser.

  2. This will open up a bunch of information about the page, you should make your browser window very wide so you can see everything

  3. The box of broken buttons is in a <ul> </ul> html element, shown in the inspector. If we click this ul thing (which might already be selected because it's the thing we did 'inspect' on), it shows the CSS for that ul element below it in the inspector. In this particular instance, the CSS for that box of buttons is called ".side .md ul:first-child" as you should be able to see in the inspector.

  4. The fact it's overlapping other stuff shows it's a positioning issue. Within ".side .md ul:first-child { }" we can see that there is the CSS property "position: absolute;"

  5. Uncheck or delete this property in the inspector, and we can see that the bar of buttons jumps to the right spot. So this means instead of "position: absolute;" we instead want "position: unset;" and it would work properly

  6. Now open your sub CSS and find an entry that corresponds to ".side .md ul:first-child" and find within that where it says "position: absolute;" and change this to "position: unset;"

  7. Save your CSS and your sub's CSS should be fixed!

Hopefully that helps, and will give you the tools to diagnose and correct future CSS problems. Let me know if you have any questions.

[–]macadoum[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks, but it doesn't help me much. My menu is still in the sidebar. I want it right there, next to the first drop-down menu : https://imgur.com/XKYKK1z

On Yang's sub the code is on wiki/config/sidebar but is well placed. On SaidIt, the menu seems to be locked up inside the sidebar.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ah I am not sure honestly. At least now you know where the element is so you can re-locate it yourself. Good luck.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

m7 is right about absolute positioning. If you want to keep it that way, add bottom margin or padding to the parent container, to give the menu thing room to live.