Urgent WordPress Help Required! Regarding Sidebar Formatting, Thank YOU!

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  1. #1
    Hey everyone,

    This is quite urgent, because the sidebar ads are live on the site at the moment.

    Problem: I have the sidebar ads and it seems that the entire background behind the ads is filled with the background colour of one of my h3 tags.

    head over to http://www.smallfishbigmoney.com

    and take a look, you'll see what i mean...if I haven't fixed it yet.

    Thanks a lot,

    Kind Regards,
    Fabien
     
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    wd_2k6 Peon

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    #2
    I guess you sorted it already cause I can't see what you mean?
     
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    smallfishbigmoney Active Member

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    #3
    The problem is still there,

    Basically here's the gist of things,

    My background-color is the light-blue color (right sidebar background colour that is)

    The background-color of my H3 tags are a darker blue

    My problem is that this darker blue is filling the space behind the ads when I want the
    space behind these ads to be the lighter blue...it's transparent so it's supposed to simply
    have that light blue color already...but it doesn't

    So I need to try and track down what the problem is with my h3 tags that makes it want to
    fill the background behind the ads

    here is the CSS code for the interested parties (the h3 tag code)

    #rsb h3
    {
    display: block;
    font-size: 105%;
    font-family: Verdana;
    text-decoration: none;
    margin: 0px 0px 5px 0px;
    padding: 0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 1.1em;
    background-color: #6996AD;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    }
     
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  4. smallfishbigmoney

    smallfishbigmoney Active Member

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    Please help if you can, the coding is live and I am trying to get it resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible. Thank YOU :)
     
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    #5
    Hmm try adding something like this in your stylesheet:

    sponsor, sfsponsors, sfwrapper {
    background-color: #LIGHTBLUEHEXCODE;
    }
     
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    smallfishbigmoney Active Member

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    #6
    Hmm I've done that a few times before, but I don't want to mask a problem as such, I'll keep on fiddling with it over the weekend. Thanks :)

    P.S GO LIVERPOOL!!!
     
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    I'm holding it in place with a background-color CSS command, not exactly the best choice, but it'll hopefully do for now.
     
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    #8
    It doesn't really matter if you are using background-color imo as it's only extra CSS rather than extra HTML, SE's don't look at CSS so the only disadvantage is a very minimal change in loading time due to the extra characters and a slighly more bloated CSS.

    It looks like you got rid of that section otherwise I could have helped into seeing why the transparent color did not show through instead.

    And come on the pool hopefully next season is ours ;)
     
    wd_2k6, May 17, 2008 IP