moving the sidebar

  • I’m working on a new theme (aren’t we all?) and I’ve succeded in doing 99% of the work in the “classic” stylesheet. I’ve managed to move the sidebar from the right to the left, but it’s too far down. It lines up under the content.

    https://www.raasmsoftware.com/wp/index.php?wptheme=Tulip
    This is over at my testing blog, not my regular one.

    I really really want to fix it in the stylesheet rather than mess with the index. Can anyone point me somewhere? I’ve tried all kinds of positioning to no avail.
    (But I think I’m gonna have to fiddle with the templates.)

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  • Thread Starter Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    Hee! Hmmm… I thought there was a footer div.. maybe not. *scratches head*

    not that I saw after collapsing down the divs on your site. The credit was just sitting there.

    Thread Starter Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    Yep, there’s no footer div, just one for credits. Huh. Gives me something to do in the morning. ??

    dawg – when I say surprisingly difficult – I meant to do it properly. Hacking about in the source order badly disturbs accessibility.

    The only thing with absolute is people with larger monitors, it is safe for 800×600 and 1024×768 but above that absolute will cause you some problems, that is why I wanted to float it.

    And andrea your blog has the menu over running the footer but it isnt noticeable until you see comments.

    Thread Starter Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    Well it sorta kinda works now, but I have to stop before my eyes really bleed. (and the kids need lunch)
    IE wasn’t noticing the top margin I set for the menu, and the footer was “stuck” to the bottom of the menu itself.

    My temporary solution was to enclose the content & menu in a container, with the footer (credit in the CSS) outside of that. Only problem is, it works so long as the container has a border. *scratches head* Take out the line for the border, or set border:0px; and it breaks.

    (Sometimes I stick borders in to see where I am, then take them out later. I’ve also got the FF css edit extension, which will outline elements for me, but sometimes it’s too tiny or overlapping.)
    And I’m partly documenting this here to hopefully help someone else in the future.

    But if you know why the border issue breaks, I’m all ears.

    I do not see a div class for your footer?

    Thread Starter Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    The div clss for the footer was called “credit” instead.
    But I had an epiphany after I walked away from the computer and realized I didn’t actually *want* a footer. I was just struggling with it because it was in the original theme I had been working from. DOH!
    (Really, I am not this dense all the time.)

    So now it looks like I want. Except IE won’t bump the sidebar down past the main tulip part. Other than that, it’s almost done.
    (Lunch, however, is another matter.)

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