How to not show sidebars? [#1262912]

Hi - I have two questions please:

1. If you want to remove a sidebar entirely, is the best way (or only way) to do this to assign that region to the "None" zone, effectively making it an unassigned region?

2. Even with "Force this region to be rendered" unchecked I notice that when I am logged in, that empty regions are still being rendered e.g. an empty sidebar is still taking up width (see screenshot1). This is not the case when I am logged out, meaning the sidebar is not rendered (see screenshot2). Is there anyway to be logged in and when a region is empty that it does not get rendered? This would just be nicer for my users.

Thanks for looking
Tim

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Comment #1

Argus CreditAttribution: Argus commented 29 August 2011 at 05:52

If you disable debugging it will not be rendered anymore.

Comment #2

timtunbridge CreditAttribution: timtunbridge commented 29 August 2011 at 09:03

Status:

Active

» Closed (fixed)

Thanks for that. Sorted now.

Comment #3

ryanwebpage CreditAttribution: ryanwebpage commented 7 October 2011 at 20:48

Version:

7.x-3.0-beta2

» 7.x-3.0

I am experience the same issue with debugging disabled. While not logged in the regions do not appear if they are empty but if you are logged in they show up. For example sidebar first shows up with the following markup<a id="context-block-region-sidebar_first" class="context-block-region">Sidebar First</a>. What ever parsing needs to happen to determine if the regions are empty appears to be ignored if you are logged in. The markup is always generated for regions which in most cases does not have an impact on the layout. However, for sidebars since they float the content region is not where expected.

I tried disabling other modules to see if they were conflicting with Omega and was not able to determine the cause. I also thought it might have something to do with contextual links with no luck disabling them either.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue with the stable release? I did a little code diving but was not able to determine where the regions and their grids were being handled.

Comment #4

ecoluke CreditAttribution: ecoluke commented 23 December 2011 at 14:20

Looked around for ages to find this - might be worth making that piece of info more readily available / obvious! :)

Comment #5

tombh CreditAttribution: tombh commented 5 January 2012 at 13:54

Just been wrestling with this same issue myself. I think it's a broader problem with the way Drupal 'helpfully' displays the outlines of block regions if you're logged in as a role with permission to edit blocks.

Comment #6

Anonymous (not verified) CreditAttribution: Anonymous commented 18 October 2012 at 23:51

Status:

Closed (fixed)

» Active

This is driving me nuts. :) I disabled all debugging options but the sidebars are still rendered for user 1. I can't for the love of me figure out how to get rid of them. Did anyone find a solution besides removing them? I might need the sidebars on some pages but not on others. Of course, I could use Delta - but that would make things more complicated than they need to be.