Interactive Report messed up...

Hi there,
I've got a problem with interactive reports...
I use it on a page built on theme "Light blue", and it looks like in the screenshot: http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/5493/interactivereportux7.jpg
The Report-Menu is not at the normal position, but under the ApEx-Edit-Links...
What did I do wrong, how can I fix this?
Thanks,
tensai

Hi.
Could be the theme. We're using Theme 20 with no issues.
The only other thing I can think is that maybe the data being returned could be affecting it. Your column "http_referer" does it have HTML in it?
You could try creating a region based on select * from all_col_comments and see if you have the same problem.
I've just created a new Application using Theme "Light Blue" with one page containing an IRR using select * from all_col_comments. No problems.
It 'could' be the data you're returning.
If you want to, set it up in a Workspace on apex.oracle.com and I'll take a look.

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Yes jari... we are doing the app for IE 7.
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