I just caught onto this and it was bugging me that when the shipping estimate was calculated, the results showed up above the location inputs which was kind of confusing. I just simply swapped the code around so that the results would show up below the location inputs.
This is the complete file and I have highlighted what I moved in [COLOR=“Blue”]blue[/COLOR]. The only other difference in this file is that I have the estimator set to show instead of hidden.
/skins/your_skin/customer/views/checkout/components/shipping_estimation.tpl:
{* $Id: shipping_estimation.tpl 8072 2009-10-09 09:53:58Z zeke $ *}<br />
<br />
{if $location == "sidebox"}<br />
{assign var="prefix" value="sidebox_"}<br />
{/if}<br />
{if $additional_id}<br />
{assign var="class_suffix" value="-`$additional_id`"}<br />
{assign var="id_suffix" value="_`$additional_id`"}<br />
{/if}<br />
<br />
{if $location != "sidebox"}<br />
<a name="estimate"></a><br />
<div class="buttons-container clear-both">{include file="buttons/button.tpl" but_role="text" but_text=$lang.estimate_shipping_cost but_id="sw_est_box`$id_suffix`" but_meta="cm-combination`$class_suffix`"}</div><br />
{/if}<br />
{if $location != "sidebox"}<br />
<div id="est_box{$id_suffix}"{if (!"AJAX_REQUEST"|defined && !$shipping_rates && $location != "sidebox")} {/if} align="right"><br />
<div class="estimation-popup-box float-right" align="left"><br />
{/if}<br />
{if !$smarty.capture.states_built}<br />
{include file="views/profiles/components/profiles_scripts.tpl" states=$smarty.const.CART_LANGUAGE|fn_get_all_states:false:true}<br />
{capture name="states_built"}Y{/capture}<br />
{/if}<br />
<script type="text/javascript"><br />
//<![CDATA[<br />
var field_groups = {$ldelim}{$rdelim};<br />
default_state['estimation{$class_suffix}'] = '{$cart.user_data.s_state|escape:javascript}';<br />
//]]><br />
</script><br />
<br />
<form class="cm-ajax" name="{$prefix}estimation_form{$id_suffix}" action="{$index_script}" method="post"><br />
{if $location == "sidebox"}<input type="hidden" name="location" value="sidebox" />{/if}<br />
{if $additional_id}<input type="hidden" name="additional_id" value="{$additional_id}" />{/if}<br />
<input type="hidden" name="result_ids" value="shipping_estimation{if $location == "sidebox"}_sidebox{/if}{$id_suffix}" /><br />
<div class="form-field"><br />
<label for="{$prefix}elm_country{$id_suffix}" class="cm-country cm-location-estimation{$class_suffix}">{$lang.country}:</label><br />
<select id="{$prefix}elm_country{$id_suffix}" class="cm-location-estimation{$class_suffix}" name="customer_location[country]"><br />
<option value="">- {$lang.select_country} -</option><br />
{assign var="countries" value=1|fn_get_simple_countries}<br />
{foreach from=$countries item=country key=ccode}<br />
<option value="{$ccode}" {if ($cart.user_data.s_country == $ccode) || (!$cart.user_data.s_country && $ccode == $settings.General.default_country)}selected="selected"{/if}>{if $block.properties.positions == "left" || $block.properties.positions == "right"}{$country|truncate:18}{else}{$country}{/if}</option><br />
{/foreach}<br />
</select><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="form-field"><br />
<label for="{$prefix}elm_state{$id_suffix}" class="cm-state cm-location-estimation{$class_suffix}">{$lang.state}:</label><br />
<input type="text" class="input-text hidden" id="{$prefix}elm_state{$id_suffix}_d" name="customer_location[state]" size="{if $location != "sidebox"}32{else}20{/if}" maxlength="64" value="{$cart.user_data.s_state}" disabled="disabled" /><br />
<select id="{$prefix}elm_state{$id_suffix}" name="customer_location[state]"><br />
<option label="" value="">- {$lang.select_state} -</option><br />
</select><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="form-field"><br />
<label for="{$prefix}elm_zipcode{$id_suffix}" {if $location == "sidebox"}class="nowrap"{/if}>{$lang.zip_postal_code}:</label><br />
<input type="text" class="input-text" id="{$prefix}elm_zipcode{$id_suffix}" name="customer_location[zipcode]" size="{if $location != "sidebox"}25{else}20{/if}" value="{$cart.user_data.s_zipcode}" /><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="buttons-container"><br />
{include file="buttons/button.tpl" but_text=$lang.estimate but_name="dispatch[checkout.shipping_estimation]" but_role="text"}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
[COLOR="Blue"]<div id="shipping_estimation{if $location == "sidebox"}_sidebox{/if}{$id_suffix}"><br />
{if $mode == "shipping_estimation" || $smarty.request.show_shippings == "Y"}<br />
<br />
{if !$cart.shipping_failed}<br />
<form class="cm-ajax" name="{$prefix}select_shipping_form{$id_suffix}" action="{$index_script}" method="post"><br />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect_mode" value="cart" /><br />
<input type="hidden" name="result_ids" value="checkout_totals" /><br />
<br />
{hook name="checkout:shipping_estimation"}<br />
{foreach from=$shipping_rates key=shipping_id item=s_rate name="fee"}<br />
{assign var="rate" value="0"}<br />
{foreach from=$s_rate.rates key=key_id item=r}{math equation="x + y" x=$rate y=$r assign="rate"}{/foreach}<br />
<p><br />
<input id="{$prefix}est_{$shipping_id}{$id_suffix}" type="radio" class="radio" name="shipping_ids[0]" value="{$shipping_id}" {if (!$cart.shipping && $smarty.foreach.fee.first) || $cart.shipping.$shipping_id}checked="checked"{/if} /> <label for="{$prefix}est_{$shipping_id}{$id_suffix}" class="valign">{$s_rate.name}{if $s_rate.delivery_time} ({$s_rate.delivery_time}){/if} - {include file="common_templates/price.tpl" value=$rate}</label><br />
</p><br />
{/foreach}<br />
{/hook}<br />
<br />
<div class="buttons-container"><br />
{include file="buttons/button.tpl" but_text=$lang.select but_role="text" but_name="dispatch[checkout.update_shipping]"}<br />
</div><br />
<br />
</form><br />
{else}<br />
<p class="error-text center"><br />
{$lang.text_no_shipping_methods}<br />
</p><br />
{/if}<br />
<br />
<hr /><br />
{/if}<br />
<!--shipping_estimation{if $location == "sidebox"}_sidebox{/if}{$id_suffix}--></div>[/COLOR]<br />
<br />
</form><br />
{if $location != "sidebox"}<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
{/if}
