Alignment of theme

  • juggernott

    (@juggernott)


    19 years, 11 months ago

    Hey everyone. As much as I’m being confused eac hand everyday by wordpress and the stylesheets that dictate what it does, I have been decently successful at figuring SOME of it out. I cannot, however, for the life of me, figure out how to fix this problem that I’ve created.

    I’ve been playing with the blue by you theme and edited this section of the stylesheet recently:

    #wrapper {
    background: url(images/two_column.gif) repeat-y;
    width: 900px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    border: solid #707C99;
    border-width: 0 1px 1px 1px;
    text-align: left;
    color: #333;
    position:relative;

    What I changed was the width – it was smaller before, but I think that 900px looks a lot sharper. What I want, however, is for the left column of the theme to expand and to keep the sidebar the same size.

    http://www.andreanott.com/wordpress

    There you can see the huge black ‘column’ that appears between the left and sidebar. If I expand the sidebar in the stylesheet, it will grow, but as you can also see, expanding the left side only expands the text, and not the background to go along with it.

    Can anyone help me to figure out how to expand that? I’d be greatly appreciative. Thanks in advance for your time!

    – Adam

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  • gruvsyco

    (@gruvsyco)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    I just casually took a look…

    cursor down past:
    /* ———- End mainnav ———————– */

    until you find:

    #left {
    float:left;
    width: 540px;
    /* position-top: 0;
    position-left: 0; */
    }

    and change the 540 to 640 to accomodate your 100 pixel increase. Should work.

    Thread Starter juggernott

    (@juggernott)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for the fast response! I had extended that before, but as you can see all that does is extend the text, which carries right over the black column that I created. I’d like the background of where that post is to expand as well, which it doesn’t.

    Any other ideas? Thanks again.

    gruvsyco

    (@gruvsyco)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    well… I’m not sure what all you have modded on the theme. That change works on the blue by you that I downloaded and when I open your site in firefox with extension CSS Edit, it strips some of your images and formatting and then looks OK.

    I’m fairly new to this CSS stuff, it’s probably easier for you to trace your steps back on the mods you’ve made.

    Good Luck

    bpartch

    (@bpartch)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    Hello

    The major issue is the background image for that division is only 800px in width:
    http://www.andreanott.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/blue-bye-you/images/two_column.gif

    also that is where the black is coming from, try to redo that image making it 900px in width and make the content area part wider.

    Than change the black part to the grey and get rid of the grey color (wherever it is coming from now) so that it will stretch to the bottom as well.

    Assuming that is what you want it to do. :p

    Thread Starter juggernott

    (@juggernott)

    19 years, 11 months ago

    You guys are all Gods amongst men – especially you, BPartch – thanks!. I have edited the image and changed the black at the end to fit with the grey that I like instead, and voila! Thanks so much, I can’t say it enough!!!!!

    – Adam

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