Why is left sidebar collapsing??

Discussion in 'CSS' started by tonyfloyd, Jun 22, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi all.....

    have no idea why left sidebar has collapsed down to bottom of site....any ideas???

    thanks!
    tony


    site is assetology***dot***com
     
    tonyfloyd, Jun 22, 2008 IP
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    wd_2k6 Peon

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    #2
    Theres obviously not enough room for it, without looking into it too deeply ask yourself has this problem just started if so think of what you have done/changed insied ur CSS/HTML to cause this, or is it a new template completley.

    OK so to easily conclude what's going wrong try the following:

    Try reducing the width of the of the content DIV to a stupidly small value e.g 100px for a test to see if the sidebar appears then. If it does then the widths are the problem.

    If even at small widths then it's your floats/positioning that is messed up!
     
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  3. tonyfloyd

    tonyfloyd Well-Known Member

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    dont think thats it......it was fine....up until the last post....something in the recent post caused sidebar to collapse.....if i remove last post...its fine....i have no idea what it could be.....
     
    tonyfloyd, Jun 22, 2008 IP
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    #4
    497 validation errors - good place to START fixing problems.

    I won't even investigate past that - At 131k of markup for only 8k of actual content, there's so much bloated code I doubt it's worth the time of trying to fix as it would, as I often suggest when there's this much wrong, be faster to start over from scratch.

    Yes, it's that bad.
     
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    tonyfloyd Well-Known Member

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    thanks.....but...im not about to code a template from scratch to fix this little error....something in the last post caused this to collapse....and im sure it is something very simple.......any thoughts?
     
    tonyfloyd, Jun 22, 2008 IP
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    I guess you fixed it already? Maybe you closed a DIV inside the post before it should have been closed..
     
    wd_2k6, Jun 23, 2008 IP
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    Add a #wrapper and include in it the max amount of px you want your site to be extended to so that the bar doesn't fall off the page.

    I ran into a similar problem with my site yesterday, and found it help to fix the problem by adding the wrapper.
     
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    tonyfloyd Well-Known Member

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    thanks guys....all i did was remove post.....:).....told you it wasnt the template...):
     
    tonyfloyd, Jun 23, 2008 IP