Sidebar image not showing up

Theres no code for an image in there?

It seems to be created by css… from the style.css file:

`#sidebar_bottom {
margin: -20px 0 0 490px;
width: 194px;
height: 47px;
}
‘

I’m not sure a “no-repeat top left” positioning for a bottom and probably right-oriented image is going to work…. even if the image IS there – which it does not appear to be, using the web dev toolbar with FF to look over your images and css….

Yeah, your css shows an inline image for that, but it has to be uploaded to the images folder, so double-check that it’s really there, then double-check the positioning if it IS there….

thank you for your assistance…. i will try out the ff web dev toolbar…

very strange, though, since it was working/displaying fine until i added additional sections to the sidebar (i.e. “Syndicate”, “Other Info”, etc).. I’m wondering if I just have the “sidebar_bottom” div located in the wrong place??? Here is the code for my entire sidebar.php page:

<div id="sidebar">

<ul>
<li><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?>
</ul>
</li>

<li> <div class="sb_header"><h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2> </div>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
</li>

<li>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
</li>

<div align=center>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8671788577252874";
google_ad_width = 160;
google_ad_height = 600;
google_ad_format = "160x600_as";
google_ad_type = "text";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "9ED063";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "3382AC";
google_color_url = "008000";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"&gt;
</script>
</div>

<?php $link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) { ?>
<li id="linkcat-<?php echo $link_cat->cat_id; ?>"><div class="sb_header"><h2><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h2></div>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>
<li><div class="sb_header"><h2><?php _e('Article Library'); ?></h2></div>

<ul>

<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>

<!--

<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>

-->

<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>
</li>

<li> <div class="sb_header"><h2><?php _e('Syndicate'); ?></h2> </div>
<ul>
<div align=center>
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</div>
</ul>
</li>

<li> <div class="sb_header"><h2><?php _e('Other Info'); ?></h2> </div>
<ul>
<div align=center>
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</div>

</ul>
</li>

</ul>

</div>

<div id="sidebar_bottom">

</div>

Maybe the image div might need to be just under the commented out href, from a quick look at what you posted. Can’t hurt to move it around some – that’s 99% of what tweaking’s all about anyway!

Thank you very much….

I’ve been moving <div id="sidebar_bottom">' around in this file and nothing seems to work. Found the place where the sidebar_bottom css/image reference is being called from in the header.php file:

<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>

body { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/bg.gif”); border: none; }
#header { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/header_home-equity.jpg”) no-repeat bottom center; border: none; }
#footer { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/footer.gif”) no-repeat top center; border: none; }
#sidebar { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/sb_top.gif”) no-repeat top left; border: none; }
sidebar_bottom { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/sb_bottom.gif”) no-repeat top left; border: none; }
.sb_header { background: url(“<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_directory’); ?>/images/h2.gif”) no-repeat top left; border: none; }
</style>

I've checked and the sb_bottom.gif image is in the images subdirectory... I'm at a loss.. The developer of this theme seems to have left to join the army and is no longer around... Theme files can be found at https://www.aamukaste.org/wpthemes/`

Anyone know any tricks to look for that might be causing this issue with this particular “boredom” theme??

Try changing sidebar_bottom to #sidebar_bottom. That should fix it.

THAT WORKED!!! Great! Sorry for the newbie CSS question but what does the “#” sign do?

Thank you again…

It’s an indicator for the “id” selector. Your “sidebar_bottom” is actually an id in the style, so without the hash-mark (#) the page didn’t understand what the style wanted it to display (that’s simplistic but basically how it works).

You can read up on how css works in wordpress here: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/graphicalcss/align/index.html

I will…Thank you again for your help…