I wanted to move the product.info.media
block from the catalog.xml
in the left column for all product view.
To achive this, i have added two lines to my local.xml
file:
<catalog_product_view>
<reference name="left">
<block type="catalog/product_view_media" name="product.info.media" as="media" template="catalog/product/view/media.phtml"/>
</reference>
<reference name="product.info">
<action method="unsetChild"><child>media</child></action>
</reference>
</catalog_product_view>
The media.phtml is binary identical with the default file from the 1.7.0.2 version of magento.
The strange thing is, that the product image on the webpage has this code:
<img id="image" src="path/to/image.jpg" alt="" title="" style="position: relative; left: 0px; width: 220px; top: 215px;">
Why is there a style defined for top?! As this style is defined inside the element i can't even change it with css. Could anyone explain this behaviour of magento?
The lines in the media.phtml which are creating this look like this:
$_img = '<img id="image" src="'.$this->helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'image').'" alt="'.$this->htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel()).'" title="'.$this->htmlEscape($this->getImageLabel()).'" />';
echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_img, 'image');
They lead me to app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Output.php
where the productAttribute function is defined. But why for heavens sake is the top style set? It makes no sense at all. If i wanted to set it i would use css.
Thanks in advance.