Sidebar widgets has long blank space underneath events

MacMare,

It looks like in the four months since you’ve posted this without a reply you’ve gone another route as far as calendars are concerned.

I’m having the same problem with the AI1EC Upcoming Events Sidebar Widget on a site I’m working on for a Biker Bible Studyin SC. To be more specific (in my case at least) the AI1EC widget creates a space in the sidebar below itself that is exactly equal to the length of the main “content”. When I attempt to put any other widget below it, the next widget get’s put in the sidebar lower than the end of my content, thus pushing the footer even lower. The work-around has been to keep AI1EC as the last widget in the sidebar, but that’s really not how I want to roll.

Now here’s the kicker: It doesn’t happen if I switch to something like Twenty Twelve so it has to be theme related. I wish I were sufficiently css & php savvy to offer a fix for others who come along with a similar issue, but I’m not… yet. When I find a solution, I will post it here.

P.S.
Nice job on the Pioneer Museum site. I’m in Falcon, work in The Springs. Let’s get a coffee sometime.

The same thing is also happening on my theme with the Google Language Translator (between the flags and the dropdown) so a little experimentation was in order:

I put the widgets below one another to see the offending space. Miraculously, the space went away on both of them when I moved them the into the footer. I also noticed the AI1EC took up the full width of the footer. Hmmm… I think to myself,”It must be trying to be wider than the theme’s sidebar will allow. Since the extra has nowhere to go it looks like it’s getting forced underneath.“

Go to your theme’s style.css and find the ID selector for your sidebar. My was:

#sidebar
{
	property1: value1;
	property2: value2;
	property3: value3;
	}

Add
overflow: hidden;
with the rest of the property:values between the brackets

I’m sure there are other ways of editing the plugin to prevent this from happening but this may help others with the same issue.

Ciao!

melonis, I messed with the style in that widget to fix it. I am bookmarking your fix though, in case it happens again and my bandaid stops working. Thanks for the compliment, the museum is a great client ?? Best wishes with your work!