date picker in \"events in\" not working

[Steven W]

All the sudden, when a user clicks in the “events in” field to pick a future year/month, the date picker that drops down does so behind the calendar text, and none of the links on the date picker are active. See video screen grab for example here: http://screencast.com/t/w3cBkqwz

The video also demonstrates that “View as Week” is returning a 404, but I’ll post a separate topic for that.

[Brook]

Howdy Mark,

Thanks for the detailed description and opening a separate topic. That is very much appreciated.

The fix here should be adding a little bit of CSS to one of your theme’s CSS files:

.datepicker.dropdown-menu { z-index: 999 !important; }

I just tested that CSS and it causes the datepicker to be on top again. Do you know how to add that? Can I be of further help here?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Steven W]

Thanks, Brook. That did the trick–although I’m not clear as to why this would need to be custom css rather than part of the TEC css… I’m pretty sure this issue only cropped up recently–after one of the updates. That is, it was working fine with our theme previously. In any event, that takes care of it.

[Brook]

Howdy Mark,

I am puzzled as well. Every other site we’ve seen does not exhibit this problem. Is it possible you update your theme at the same time? Or perhaps you have not disabled autoupdates? Either way this appear to be a conflictbetween TEC and your Theme so the only way to resolve it is a little custom code.

Does that all make sense?

Cheers!

[Steven W]

I haven’t updated our theme in months–mainly because the last major update to it (HB Themes Highend) required a convoluted uninstall/reinstall outside the normal update process and I just haven’t had the time to mess with it. But whatever the issue, the custom css fixed it and I’m happy. Again, thanks for the assistance.

[Brook]

That’s interesting. It’s possible one of our CSS changes opened up this conflict then. The z-index for that menu is rather low, only 4. On the one hand that’s nice because you don’t want it to appear over main menu drop downs and such, on the other hand it might be just a touch too low. We’ll keep that in mind for possible future changes. But even if we do make some changes you can keep the current CSS fix in your theme, it will guarantee compatibility.

Cheers!

– Brook

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