Dropdown is being placed outside the menu

Hi,

It is very hard to tell anything from the screenshot alone. I’ll need to check it in action to be able to suggest anything.

Thanks! ??

@wpfiend Please don’t offer to send or post logon credentials on these forums:

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You can contact the author on their own site and, once there, the discussion is between the two of you. However, it is not OK to enter or send site credentials on these forums. We don’t want to encourage others (who are less reputable) to do similar things. It’s a fine line, but one that we need to enforce. Thanks for your cooperation.

>> and access details if necessar <<

@edo888 I’ve deleted your offer to login to your user’s site. I’m am 100% sure you mean well but please never ask for credentials on these forums.

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Now for the why: The internet is a wonderful place full of very nice people and a few very bad ones. I’m sure everyone here is very nice however, by giving some ones keys to your house you are trusting they wont steal anything. Likewise the person who takes the keys is now responsible for the house FOREVER.

If something was to go wrong, then you the author may well legally become liable for damages, which they would not normally have been as their software is provided without warranty.

Please be aware that repeatedly asking for credentials will result in us escalating this to the plugins team.

It’s never necessary to do that. Here’s why.

There are many ways to get information you need and accessing the user’s site is not one of them. That’s going too far.

Ask for a link to the https://pastebin.com/ log of the user’s web server error log.

Ask the user to create and post a link to their phpinfo(); output.

Ask the user to install the Health Check plugin and get the data that way.

Walk the user through enabling WP_DEBUG and how to log that output to a file and how to share that file.

Walk the user through basic troubleshooting steps such and disabling all other plugins, clear their cache and cookies and try again.

Ask the user for the step-by-step on how they can reproduce the problem.

You get the idea.

Volunteer support is not easy. But these forums need to a safe place for all users, experienced or new. Accessing their system that way is a short cut that will get you into real trouble in these forums.

@wpfiend sorry it seems that we are hitting a wall here.

I will not be able to help you without replicating the issue myself.

Please feel free to reopen this topic when your site goes public.

Thanks! ??

@edo888 Here is the link to our “under development” site that is experiencing what I have described above.

1.) The Translate dropdown is showing up to the right of the top menu.

2.) On mobile view, the languages are not even showing up in the dropdown.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

The problem seems to be the unconditional position: absolute @ line 2076 (dropdown_with_flags section) in gtranslate.php (v2.8.62).

You can test this by setting the Widget look to “Flags”. Different style, but should be placed within the menu.

If this confirms that that’s the cause for you too, to fix either ① add #gtranslate_wrapper {position: relative !important} to the Additional CSS in your Customizer, or ② (not recommended) remove the offending style="position:absolute;" via the Plugin Editor.

To use “Nice dropdown with flags” properly you’ll need two more changes – otherwise it’ll ① be placed misaligned, ② move the entire menu bar when dropping down, and ③ (if applicable to your theme) be wrongly padded in the mobile menu:

Either, in the plugin’s “Widget code (for advanced users)”…

1. in .switcher, remove the overflow:hidden; and add (for centering in the mobile menu) margin: auto;
2. at .switcher .option, change position:relative; to position:fixed;
3. add #mobile_menu #gtranslate_wrapper > div.switcher.notranslate > div.selected > a {padding:5px}

…　or, again in the Customizer, further add

#gtranslate_wrapper > div.switcher.notranslate {overflow: initial;margin:auto;}
#gtranslate_wrapper > div.switcher.notranslate > div.option {position:fixed;}
#mobile_menu #gtranslate_wrapper > div.switcher.notranslate > div.selected > a {padding:5px}

(BTW, question for dev & mod: Why is the access to “browse the code” & the development log banned with a 403 Forbidden?)