By henway on

To start with, I'm a very new user... not familiar with much of Drupal terminology... know nothing about php

So I have been trying to modify a theme to get it to look just like i want it to. So i have made some edits to the css file and making a little progress. But what is happening now is that page appearance changes depending on whether you are logged into the site or not. Appearance changes again when editing or creating new content.

I'm sure much more information is needed from me to get to the bottom of this, but thought there might be a setting somewhere that alters the look between logged in and logged out.

Thanks
Chas

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VM’s picture

VM commented

have you cleared the drupal cache?

logged in / logged out is anon vs. authenticated user. Much of what an anon user sees is cached.

henway’s picture

henway commented

I cleared all caches own the performance panel if thats what you mean. Did that several times.

VM’s picture

VM commented

What you indicate isn't a default drupal behavior.

Is there any 3rd party caching in the environment?
What modules are installed?

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henway commented

right now i have drupal installed locally on my desktop mac. I don't know whether that answers your caching question or not.

Modules
AT Theme Generator
AT Tools
Views Slideshow
Views slideshow cycle
Bootstrap layouts
Workbench

The theme I'm trying to modify is Bootstrap for Business

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

The main reason I have seen for this is the Contextual links module. It adds position: relative to lots of containers:

.contextual-region {
    position: relative;
}

... and many people are doing positioning reliant on the parent container having this set (such as using position:absolute on a child element) - when they log out, boom - contextual links no longer loads and position relative is gone = site is messed up.

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henway commented

Thanks Jeff
So what i am seeing a different background color behind the content. When logged out or when creating new content, that BG is white. When i click back to site, that BG changes to a dark gray and any text on top of it is unreadable. I have switched to several other themes and the same thing happens. I don't remember it being that way when i first installed the site.

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Jeff Burnz commented

We'll, you'd have to link to the site in question and potentially allow someone access to the site to debug it - a login with credentials so they can see the issue and identify what is going on. CSS issues can be difficult to assess without seeing it live.

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