Strange question, I know! I would like to use a css-only based tooltip, but therefore I need to know whether the block is placed on the left or right side. If I know this, then I can use different classes for the tooltip. A smarty-solution would be nice.

Any hints for me?

hi,

You might take a look to "Morphogenesis gabarit" and his stylesheet blocks.css.

Many combinations :
#xo-page-topleftblocks .xo-block {}
#xo-page-bottomleftblocks .xo-block {}
#xo-page-toprightblocks .xo-block {}
#xo-page-bottomrightblocks .xo-block {}
... etc.

Hope it helps

@+

in the default theme there arte $xoops_showcblock,$xoops_showlblock,$xoops_showrblock,

maybe


didn't try it

doesn't seem to be any theme guys left here at XOOPS to help you... maybe ask somewhere else?

Bump.
I have this same issue. I need my main menu block to output different html if it is left or right.

I even tried putting
<{assign var="Block_Position" value="canvas_left"}>
before the
<{foreach item=block from=$xoBlocks.canvas_left}>....
and
<{assign var="Block_Position" value="canvas_right"}>
befpre the
<{foreach item=block from=$xoBlocks.canvas_right}>.....
but no luck.

The main template "sees" <{$Block_Position}> but the block doesn't.

Is there any way to do this without a core hack?

You make the left and right html in your block inside a div with class eg leftpart and rightpart.
Your columns have also a class, name or id in their div eg class leftcolumn.
In your CSS you suppress the inappropriate parts:

I think you need to hack core or wait for a better version.

I was hoping to find a more elegant Smarty solution and not a CSS or Javascript hack.
Is there really no way that this can achieved through Smarty?

No smarty solution because blocks are rendered first and then they are assigned to positions so, at block execution time, smarty is not aware of the block location. This requires only line of code in class theme_blocks.php, maybe in next release.

I would greatly appreciate it if this could be included in the next release. It would be very useful in my theme development.