sidebar not following CSS

  • Resolved lwatkins

    (@lwatkins)


    18 years ago

    I installed a plug-in and it messed-up my theme. It added bullets to my sidebar, and changed the CSS. The sidebarleft is going across the entire page and pushing the rest of the elements down. Changes made to the CSS sidebar have no effect. It’s as if it is getting it’s info from somewhere else.

    I have removed the plug-in.

    I’ve been trying to resolve it now for hours and can’t figure out what to do. Can someone perhaps point me in the right direction?

    http://createart.leisawatkins.com

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  • joshnunn

    (@joshnunn)

    18 years ago

    Leisa,

    I’ve checked out your CSS with the Validator:
    http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcreateart.leisawatkins.com%2F

    and I suspect that the couple of errors are causing the code to be incorrectly interpreted. The things I’d particularly look at are:

    • The slashes here: //h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, address, blockquote, dd, dl, hr, form{ margin: 0; padding: 0; }
    • The property “align” in #banner and .footer – change to text-align
    • The property “font-color” in .topmenu, .comments-template h3, and .comments-template h2 – change to color
    • .maincol is missing an “;” after “height:100%”
    • in .post h2, .post_alt h2 – change “font-weight: heavy” to “font-weight:bold”
    • missing end bracket “}” on .signature img
    • in .sidebarleft ul li a and .sidebar ul li a replace “font color” with “color”
    • missing end bracket “}” on #searchform

    All these issues would contribute to the code not being read correctly. Make those changes and see if it fixes it or not, only then can we help further.

    nalco

    (@nalco)

    18 years ago

    Well if it changed when you installed the plugin, then you need to look in the plugin files for the offending CSS.

    If you use Firefox, install the firebug extension and inspect the sidebar. It will tell you what file the CSS is being pulled from.

    What plugin did you install??

    Thread Starter lwatkins

    (@lwatkins)

    18 years ago

    Josh Nunn,

    Thanks! I don’t know why I didn’t think of running it through a validator. I won’t make that mistake again. I made those changes and it did the trick.

    Nalco,

    That was the first thing I thought of so I removed the plug-in and it’s CSS file and still had the problem.

    I have the firebug extension and don’t really know how to use it effectively – obviously

    Thanks both or you for your help!

    ~ Leisa

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