Footer Style Suddenly not applying

have u done any editing in footer.php

The only editing I’ve done is in the style sheet and the sidebar to add the basket with the counter on how many babies have been helped. I’ve done nothing in the footer at all.

I also noticed that my sidebar pages is also not taking the style all of a sudden.

I removed the addition of the basket in the widgets and the styles of them and the styles still don’t take. So I am guessing that the new item isn’t doing it, so I put them back.

This is the code I added to the style sheet

#sidebar .count {
	width: 200px;
	float: left;
	font-size: 13px;
	color: #555;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 15px;
	margin-bottom: 15px;
        line-height: 20px;
background: url(images/basket.png) no-repeat center;
height: 170px;
}

#sidebar .countcopy {
margin-top:107px;
text-align:center;
}

And this is the widget code
<div class="count"><div class="countcopy"><span style="font-size: 2em;">1,765</span><br />Infants Helped</div></div>

I don’t either of those should have anything to do with the footer code… ?

you might have accidentally add a </div> to your sidebar, that generally screws the whole thing up. were you editing it though widgets or the actual sidebar.php?. when viewing source it looks like footer is not included in your wrapper, so delete a </div> from the appropriate place (e.g. end of sidebar.php or at the beginning of footer.php.

Thank you for your response Ilana…

I had edited it through the widget, not the actual sidebar.php file. But when i remove the code from the widget, nothing goes back, so I am not sure.

I went through my template files and I don’t see any extra </div> tags. But I do notice in firebug that when I mouse over my <div=”footer”> that the entire screen highlights indicating that something is not closed…

but I can’t seem to locate what is going on. It’s so strange because I didn’t touch the template files except for the style.css.

is your footer supposed to be within the wrapper? because in firebug it is not, which would explain why your footer styles are not taking effect.

have you tried making all your widgets inactive and checking to see if that fixes it?

also, do you have a clear set for after your sidebar? that float could mess things up if not cleared properly. just for testing purposes, i would try moving the </div> that closes wrapper to after the footer closes.

good luck

Thanks Ilana. I tried those both moving the </div> around and deactivating the widgets adn that does not resolve it.

I don’t know how to write a clear set for after the sidebar? What is the code for that? clear: both; ?

Thanks again!
Kathy