Problems with wrapper div id

  • Resolved u6crash

    (@u6crash)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Recently I’ve taken on the task of building a new theme from scratch. I’m trying not to get too far ahead of myself and make sure each new component works before moving onto the next.

    Currently I have a semi-custom theme that I made two years ago from the default theme by Dave Shea. You could say I’m a little out of practice. Anyway, the current theme has the wrapper div the way I like it, with a border on the left and right, centered.

    The new theme isn’t working right. The validator says all is good, but I know it’s not right. I’m also using Firebug to highlight different areas and the wrapper div is never highlighted. The best I was able to do while trying to apply a border on all four sides was getting a border at the top.

    Any help would be much appreciated! I don’t know if I have a CSS conflict or what. Might be worth mentioning a couple differences between the two. Old working theme has a div called “content” instead of “container” in the new one. The old one has an id for “sidebar” while the new one has a class for “sidebar”. I started the new one with instructions found at wpdesigner.com and it all seemed pretty solid until I started tweaking it myself.

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  • zeniph

    (@zeniph)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    All of your div elements inside “wrapper” are floated.

    This means that “wrapper” has nothing inside it to give it height.

    Add a redundant div after your “footer” div with the style of clear:both

    html:
    <div class="cleaner">&nbsp;</div>
    css:
    .cleaner{clear: both;}

    It clears the floats of the other objects and will force your wrapper to respect the heights of the other floated objects its contains.

    Thread Starter u6crash

    (@u6crash)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you! I’m not going to say that I fully understand why it works (as I didn’t have an empty cleaner div in the other version), but I’ll keep what you said in mind as I continue to compare it to my previous working version. Thanks so much for your help!

    nyunyu

    (@nyunyu)

    14 years ago

    zeniph, thank you for the brilliant solution (well, at least to newbie learner like me). My problem solve just after reading and do like what you suggest.

    Many thanks.

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