checkout_payment.php is broken on compromise

**blackhawk** · 06-04-2010, 01:00 AM

not to be lazy, or simply not sure if you guys know but the checkout_payment.php page on the compromise template is jacked up. the content region is shifted to the right of the screen dramatically and the sidebar panel is either gone or nested inside the content area. It's a pretty long page of code too. I just wanted to let you all know. bh

**blackhawk** · 06-04-2010, 01:09 AM

my apologies, i put a width of 610px on my css content ID which is what caused the break - I'M SORRY!!!....but that is still not a page to customize. man its beastly! I do have one question, how did you guys manage to nest {sidebar} into the mid content section, only on that particular page?

**ITF** · 08-25-2010, 05:33 PM

Hi,

I found the width and changed it to 900px, with 0 padding on all sides.
However, the tables for that page is still protruding out the right side.. I do not know how to make it less.
I've tried changing the main table width to 700px in checkout_payment.tpl.php but no luck, it's still protruding out.

Can you tell me how you fixed it? Thanks

**ITF** · 08-25-2010, 07:01 PM

Okay, so I took some more time to look more into it. I'm not sure if the actual problem was found and corrected. But, I searched and couldn't find an answer. I hope this helps other users looking for the fix.

The table being protruding to the right had nothing to do with the content id width 610px.

in checkout_payment.tpl.php if you add a border of 1px to the main table, you can see that it's holding the footer.. which isn't right since the main layout itself is all in <div> layers.

So, that suggested that the table is missing some tags.
At the very end of the page you see

Code:

</table></form>

You add these missing tags (below) to the end after the </form> tag.

Code:

  </td></table></td></tr></table>

For me, this fixed the problem. The sidebar also isn't nested at the bottom, it was moved to the bottom because the table wasn't closed properly. After applying the code the sidebar goes back to the left column.

**met00** · 08-27-2010, 10:44 AM

all the better reason to move away from table layouts to css based layouts. I can't count the number of times I've had to trace broken tables with border=5/4/3/2/1 to find out where the missing td tr or table closes are.

**ITF** · 08-27-2010, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by met00

all the better reason to move away from table layouts to css based layouts. I can't count the number of times I've had to trace broken tables with border=5/4/3/2/1 to find out where the missing td tr or table closes are.

Lol, couldn't agree with you more!