Sidebar in bottom of page in IE/FF

  • Hello everyone,

    I am using the Berlin theme for my site; as you can see, the sidebar in my posts are appearing at the bottom of the page. This happens in Firefox and in IE, so I presume this is a code problem, not a browser rendition problem.

    Example
    Example 2

    The sidebar does appear in the side here

    I have looked in firebug and realized that the div id “bottombar” is being employed in both the instances when the sidebar is in the side and when it is in the bottom of the page.

    The functions.php file appears to be the only source where I could find the bottombar id…

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    How can I make the sidebar appear in the side?

    Thanks so much for your help I have had this problem for months with no avail. I have read other posts and have looked for stray '<div>' or '</div>' and have also checked my ie css file to ensure any IE problems were eliminated.

    Cheers!

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  • Hi,

    The issue is that the div holding the sidebar is actually inside of the div with the id of maincontent. On the page that shows correctly, the sidebar div is actually outside of the maincontent div. You need to find the theme file that controls the placement of the sidebar on those pages that don’t show correctly, probably index.php or single.php and move all the divs with the class ‘column’ outside of the maincontent div. That should fix the problem.

    The reason the sidebar is getting kicked to the bottom is because the sidebar and the content don’t fit in the predefined width of the maincontent div. Since the sidebar is to wide and comes in the code after the content, it is placed below.

    Hope that helps. Let me know how it goes.

    Thread Starter goingtomedschool

    (@goingtomedschool)

    Thanks Jonathan.
    I hope you can see the code now, a moderator kindly removed the code I had earlier rather than delete my post ??

    This time, here is my single.php in pastebin https://pastebin.com/61q1DByR

    Honestly, I am completely confused; reading php code is not my forte, but I am trying to learn using my knowledge of html and ability to understand english (lol).

    Should I somehow edit or delete lines 47-49? Does column span-6 mean anything?

    Thanks for your help I’m sorry I’m such a dunce at this bit.

    After looking at the code you sent it over it seems like there is a missing closing tag for the maincontent div. To fix it add the code:

    </div>

    just before the code

    <div class="column span-6 last">

    in your single.php file. Once you add that closing div tag upload the file, refresh the page, and see if that works.

    Thread Starter goingtomedschool

    (@goingtomedschool)

    Wow Jonathan, that fixed it!
    You really helped me and I hope this helps someone else who has a similar problem with the Berlin theme. Not sure how it happened since I don’t imagine I deleted something…but now my sidebar is in the proper place.

    Thank you so much; I have been worrying about this for so long and looking over and over through my files.

    Thank you again!!! Cheers ??

    Glad I could help. Good luck with the website.

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