junkrigsailor

OK – deleting the <div> lines fixed it.

I have been looking at the html view of my page. I see the lines you quote.

Should I just delete them? Do I not need any div definitions at all there?

This is my first ever WordPress site. I have some knowledge of html & css, but not a deep level of knowledge. Almost all my html experience is from long years ago before css became a widely accepted means of defining site characteristics.

Thanks again for your help.

In this order:

I wrote the essay in question as a regular post
I selected new -> page on the dashboard
I copied and pasted the post onto the page
I did a little cleanup editing
I selected “publish “

Poof! Black bar.

Um… I didn’t do any direct html on the page – I’ve never brought up an HTML editor on a WordPress site, although I do on my Joomla sites…
Where in the template is that erroneous code located, so I can fix it?