Columns CSS making form controls uneditable

  • Resolved Alex Cicovic

    (@acicovic)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello there,

    I was handed a website with a very outdated version of weForms (precisely 1.2.2), which I had to work on to make updateable, since the previous developer had hardcoded things in it and had disabled plugin auto-updates.

    Now, when updating to 1.6.9, I get this strange issue where some controls of the form are not editable. I’ve seen a mention of this issue in https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-options-theme-css-not-used/ which was acknowledged by support. By fiddling a bit with it, it seems that one of the main culprits is the float:left which is being used for columns. Removing it makes the form fully editable (but renders the form completely vertically of course).

    However, in 1.2.2 this works fine, so this issue was introduced in a later release. Although time consuming, it should not be too hard for me to find the release introducing the bug by upgrading the plugin version by version.

    So I wanted to ask about the status of this and if we can do anything to fix it.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter Alex Cicovic

    (@acicovic)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Removing position: relative; from ul.wpuf-form .wpuf-el { ... } in frontend-forms.css fixes it for me, although I haven’t tested it enough yet to see if it has any undesirable side-effects.

    Plugin Support Elana Davis

    (@elanasparkle)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @acicovic,

    ​Thank you for reaching out to support! This should be resolved as you mentioned in a previous release fixed these issues. From the sounds of it might be possible that the theme you are using might be doing something. What theme are you using? Since we can’t replicate I would love to see if we can narrow it down. Or if you can update your original post to include your form URL.

    Also, it might be better if you can’t get around it to set the position to inherit and not remove it completely.

    Thanks
    Elana D.

    Thread Starter Alex Cicovic

    (@acicovic)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello @elanasparkle, thanks for the feedback.

    Can’t really share a URL since I’m still testing this in local. Once I upload this for the client it will be a fixed version (I hope!) so this isn’t good either. The theme I’m using is Avada. I could probably upload a testbed somewhere, but I would need some days to do this, and I wouldn’t like to post a URL publicly. Let me know if this interests you.

    Concerning the CSS fix, I had no time to investigate further but I’ll certainly play more with my finding and what you suggested to see what’s a better fit for my scenario.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter Alex Cicovic

    (@acicovic)

    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello there,

    Setting position to inherit works for me without any bad side effects, so I’m marking this as resolved.

    Thank you!

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