Sidebar padding in Twentyeleven

Try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS work.
https://getfirebug.com/

I am learning how to use Firebug now, but don’t really get it yet. Does anyone know what part of my child theme style.css I should modify?

Did you edit the #secondary div? That is the div for the sidebar.

Elaine, is that part of the style.css ? Please post a code snippet if you can to help me find that section..

Just looked through style.css – the #secondary div comes up four times in the following sections:

/* =Structure———————————————– */
/* Right Content */
/* One column */
and
/* =Responsive Structure————————————- */

I don’t have any right content, so which one of these sections should I edit – “structure”, “one column” or “responsive structure” ??

Thanks.

Hey Rarefires,

you want the first one.

it’ll say something like this (hopefully exactly this)

#secondary {

float: right;

margin-right: 7.6%;

width: 18.8%;

in your child theme add
#secondary {
padding:
}

and enter your padding values

I’ve recently been working on something similar, so I hope this will work for you

It’s been yonks since I’ve done serious CSS and these forums have been really helpful.

Thanks stevewatt,

I added just this code in my child theme style.css:
#secondary {
padding: 0
}

, with the hopes that the 0 there affects the padding in the sidebar. But there’s no change. Can I use negative values, like -20% ?

Gotta admit, I’m a little confused.. and to add to this confusion, I’m using a widget called Simple Image Link to place the graphics in teh sidebar, since I don’t know how to use the text widget to do this.