Sidebar sometimes pushed down, sometimes not ... why?

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I have a ‘practice’ WordPress site at http://jaybeeweb.com/TestSite/, where a strange thing is happening with the sidebar in the blog part of the site which, I’m pretty sure, is caused by my css styles.

When you view a complete post (by, for example, clicking on “Read more …”), the sidebar seems to be fine if there are no comments posted for that particular post, but it gets pushed down and the page breaks if there are comments posted.

I can’t figure out why the comments are interfering with the sidebar, because they don’t seem to be overlapping in any way. I think I need a fresh pair of eyes to look at this and maybe find the issue that I can’t see. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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There seems to be a stray </div> on the page:


        </div> <!-- .post -->
    [color=red][s]</div>[/s][/color]

Then move #blogbar above #main. Floats need to preceed the text or containers that are supposed to sit beside them.

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                                <p>The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs. Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex! Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz.</p>
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                                <p>A wizard&#8217;s job is to vex chumps quickly in fog. Watch &#8220;Jeopardy! &#8220;, Alex Trebek&#8217;s fun TV quiz game. Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz. Brawny gods just</p>
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                                <p>Few quips galvanized the mock jury box. Quick brown dogs jump over the lazy fox.</p>
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I removed the stray </div> - don’t know how long I’ve been staring at that code without seeing it. Thank you.

When I removed that </div> and moved the blogbar div up to the top, something went haywire with my post query, so I’ll have to figure that one out tomorrow. One question about that though. I used to put all my floated elements first, then I started wondering about the effect on order of content (e.g. screen-readers, etc). So I started putting elements in the order which would be logical for the readers. I’m a bit unsure now about all that.

Closing slashes on empty elements is a habit but I’ve heard that even though it’s not necessary with the html5 doctype, it’s not wrong either. So I haven’t changed my habit there.

Thank you for taking the time to check.

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OK, I was shortsighed. :blush:

Let’s swap those divs back into the normal flow order, #main before #blogbar.

This is the general order in which the layers of boxes are arranged that works for me.


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NOTE: there should be only ONE [color=blue]<div class="clear"></div>[/color]

EDIT: this is in the desired order.


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                        <p>The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs. Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex! <span id="more-97"></span>Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz. Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox. Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack.</p>
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                                <p>Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim. Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim. Sex-charged fop blew my junk TV quiz. How quickly daft jumping zebras vex. Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz. Quick, Baz, get my woven flax jodhpurs! &#8220;Now fax quiz Jack! &#8221; my brave ghost pled.</p>
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                                <p>The quick, brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog. Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps. Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs. Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex! Fox nymphs grab quick-jived waltz.</p>
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                                <p>A wizard&#8217;s job is to vex chumps quickly in fog. Watch &#8220;Jeopardy! &#8220;, Alex Trebek&#8217;s fun TV quiz game. Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz. Brawny gods just</p>
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                                <p>Few quips galvanized the mock jury box. Quick brown dogs jump over the lazy fox.</p>
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That fixed the posts that have comments, but something in the changes totally broke the posts that have no comments and the content is not showing. Only the footer is showing, and all the footer posts have been pushed into the last column. Strangely enough, the content does appear in the source code. I’ll take a look at those pages and see if I can find the issue there today sometime.

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I finally found the issue. In my comments.php file, which handles the comments to the posts, I had closed a div in the wrong spot (inside an if-loop), so if there were no comments, the div didn’t close and created all sorts of issues. I found it by comparing the source code of a single page with comments and a single page without comments. Thank you for your help.

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Hi, WebMachine.

It takes a while to reformat (indent) the tags in a WordPress page to account for them (match them). Just before you posted, I had realized that both pages had similar “stray div” errors which was why fixing one page broke the other.

Very glad to hear that you found the error. Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback and explain what you found.

Cheers.