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1. mpjohnso
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   My site is: http://www.earthascope.com

   You'll notice on the linked page above that, if you scroll down, the grey sidebar wraps down below the main content posting area.

   Does anyone have any idea how to prevent this from happening and just have white space extend down below my content and comments?

   Thanks so much in advance!!!

2. scottelee
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I can see a few problems right off the bat.

   I don't know the exact php files you have, so you'll have to track these down on your own.

   NOTE: close your img tags properly for your DOCTYPE. XHTML requires self-closing img tags. Also, XHTML requires img alt="some description of the image here"

   1) You have no /HEAD or BODY tags. Not your fault I checked the theme as posted, and it didn't COME with any. You'll need to add those.

   2) You'll see a sequence that looks like this:
   

   <div id="top_strip_left">
      <ul><li id="top_active_tab">
        <div></ul>
          </div>
          <div id="top_strip_right">

   This is just plain bad coding.
   Try, instead:
   

   <div id="top_strip_left">
         <ul>
           <li id="top_active_tab">
             <div>&nbsp;</div>
           </li>
         </ul>
       </div>
   
       <div id="top_strip_right">

   Or you can remove the empty "top_active_tab" list for formatting. Play with it a little.

   3) In your sidebar, you have an UL with class="sidebar_boxes" with all of your nice google ads in it. That needs to be moved into a div.
   So, DIV class="sidebar_boxes" then you UL and SCRIPTS and whatnot, then /UL and /DIV.

   Without that DIV in place, you end up with ...

   4) Your sidebar DIV class="sidebar_internals" is actually OUTSIDE of your sidebar DIV.

   There are more, but I think I managed to fix the page. It now shows up fine in my Firefox 3, Linux machine.

   Check my version of your page at: http://catesintheloop.com/earthascope.html. Then you can view the source for yourself. If you have any questions, I included my own email address in my copy of your site. Just look for the big EMAIL link.

   Hope I can help.

3. stewie1
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I have the same problem going on with my blog. The main page, Archives and the Category pages of the blog are rendering correctly, but when you go to a single post page the sidebar gets moved below the post area.

   Here is a link to my main blog http://www.duiprocess.com/blog/

   Here is a link to a single blog post page that displays the problem http://www.duiprocess.com/blog/?p=33

   The theme I am using is "mtsix". I did originally have this problem on every page, but after playing around with the padding in the style.css file I was able to fix the problem, but I have not yet been able to fix the problem on the individual post pages.

   Any input would be appreciated!

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