Sidebar issues (sorry)

  • surlyjohn

    (@surlyjohn)


    18 years ago

    I’ve seen the other posts, but I’m stumped…

    My sidebar has relocated to the bottom of the page.
    Here, and here are two examples.

    I downloaded “Fancy Archives” today, as well as changed my theme a bit (I’m using Exquisite 2.0, with some tweaks).

    Here’s the thing, after reading the other similar questions, I did some checking and used the xhtml validator. After fixing the page so that no errors came up, the page was unreadable…text over images and nothing lined up. So I put it back the way it was. I’m not exactly xhtml literate, so I’m unsure where to go now.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,
    John

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  • Funkphenomenon

    (@funkphenomenon)

    Most of the time layout has nothing to do with XHTML, is mostly a CSS issue.
    Try float: left on #content and float: right on #sidebar in your style.css .

    Thread Starter surlyjohn

    (@surlyjohn)

    I did what you said, and it didn’t work at first. Then I noticed that #content had “overflow: hidden” so I deleted that, and everything looks great now.

    Is removing overflow: hidden going to screw something up later?

    Thanks!

    Funkphenomenon

    (@funkphenomenon)

    On my computer I didn’t notice any diference with or without overflow:hidden. Removing it probably won’t do no harm if you’re not using borders or backgrounds on #content, but it has it’s use.

    With overflow:hidden the floating div will expand all the way down to where the content in that particular div ends. This is called ‘clearing floats’. I think you’ll notice the difference when temporarily adding a background-color to the float (e.g. red) and removing or adding the overflow:hidden?

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