Another Sidebar CSS Issue

  • joyebadejo

    (@joyebadejo)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    I’m helping a buddy of mine with his website running on WordPress and a child theme of the standard Twenty Eleven theme.
    The website is MatrimoneyClothing.com.

    He approached me to help implement sidebars on several of the pages. As you can see on all pages except the ‘Home’ and ‘Lookbook’ pages I have added sidebars containing a shop widget and/or the vertical banner.

    I am facing two problems with the sidebars however. For the life of me, I cannot change the background color of the sidebars. I have tried everything in the stylesheet and nothing seems to work. My aim is to have solid black sidebars.

    Secondly, I would like the to include the vertical banner on each page but on shorter pages like ‘About’, the banner hangs over the footer and below the rest of the page. For some reason it is escaping its container. I’ve attempted “clear:both” and “min-height” type fixes but I have been unsuccessful.

    Any help you guys can provide is greatly appreciated!
    Thanks!

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  • wspencer

    (@wspencer)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    If you’re using the shortcode for the background CSS, you need to have it in the right order. By declaring the background color last, the browser won’t render the CSS properly.

    Background shortcode uses the following element order:
    background-color, background-image, background-repeat, background-attachment, background-position

    You don’t need them all in there, but they DO need to be in that order if you use the short code. If your CSS file size isn’t an issue, feel free to use the regular code and just declare each element at a time

    For the banners, are you using a sticky footer? I didn’t get that far into your CSS in Firebug. If you are, double check all of your numbers on that. As long as both your main column and sidebar are inside of the main-content area wrapper, it SHOULD push the footer down if needed.

    Thread Starter joyebadejo

    (@joyebadejo)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for the reply, wspencer.
    I double checked what you mentioned in regards to background color but I still can’t get the right color.

    I’m not sure what a sticky footer is so I don’t think I’m using a sticky footer…

    Thread Starter joyebadejo

    (@joyebadejo)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Can anyone out there provide any insight on this. I honestly feel like i’ve tried everything

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