Sidebar drops down on single post page

  • Resolved wp_noobamatic

    (@wp_noobamatic)


    15 years, 4 months ago

    Ok i’ve been at it for like 4 hours now and still cant find the solution to this problem!!! Im designing my own theme starting from scratch. everything worked ok until i ran in to the problem of my sidebar dropping down to bottom of screen on single post page. CSS is validated. HTML validated. i design in a code editor that has automatic valitadion so i always know when there is an error. I have a two column theme with content on left and sidebar on right. Left content is float left in css. i checked margins and widths even reducing width to a very small amount just to see if it does anything! just left a big gap of space sidebar still at the bottom. took out previous and after links still didnt work reduced width of side bar still not working!!! SOMEONE HELP ME!!! CODING SHOULDNT BE THIS HARD!!! oh by the way heres the thing it works FINE on mozilla but drops on IE7!!! i hope this is not the infamous float bug problem which ive read about in the gruelling 2hour long search on the net for help on this issue. Can someone please help!!!

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  • It might be the infamous pasting-text-from-MSWord-to-Write-Panel-Bug which affects IE browsers and not FF. It would still validate if your doctype is set to transitional. Could better help you if you give your site URL.

    Post a link to your website and let us look at it.

    Otherwise we won’t know if it’s something in the post itself that is messing around with your coding (like mercime says, it’s possible!) or if it’s your own coding that’s doing it.

    IE is notorious for its bugs, including float bugs and padding bugs and margin bugs and alignment bugs, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the problem is due to some discrepancy in how IE renders things.

    Thread Starter wp_noobamatic

    (@wp_noobamatic)

    Thanks ppl I found the problem! it was my code in my single.php file which the comments section was a div section that came before my <?php get_sidebar();> call which naturally forced my sidebar to be underneath it. Unbelievable the time i spent trying to figure this out!!! I guess this is how you learn. But i’m sure a lot of people ran into this problem especially if they are modifying someone elses code-in my case- to develop their theme.

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