Title: CSS help in formatting pages
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# CSS help in formatting pages

 *  [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-formatting-pages/)
 * I’ve tried a number of different methods, but cannot seem to get the format to
   work correctly.
 * I am trying to create a side-bar within a single page/post. Here is how it SHOULD
   look when working correctly:
 * [http://www.cinemasight.com/the-dvd-report-324/](http://www.cinemasight.com/the-dvd-report-324/)
 * That’s a regular post and I can get it to manipulate the div in the sidebar with
   it. However, when I attempt to do the same thing with a post, it doesn’t work
   as exemplified here:
 * [http://www.cinemasight.com/film-reviews/film-reviews-2000-2009/2009-reviews/](http://www.cinemasight.com/film-reviews/film-reviews-2000-2009/2009-reviews/)
 * The only thing I can tell that’s different is that the latter is Page and the
   former is a Post. I don’t think there’s a reason they shouldn’t both be able 
   to be formatted this way, but I’m not sure how to do it. Are they both supposed
   to be part of the CSS for #content-body? or does the page one have to be #content-
   body .page? or is there another way I’m not finding?

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 *  Thread Starter [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-formatting-pages/#post-4093259)
 * Wait, I seem to have it, but now I’ve got a different problem I need to resolve.
   It was a positioning issue before (I had the div positioned at the bottom of 
   the post).
 * Now, I just have it where it’s overlapping the rest of the content instead of
   pushing it to the side.
 *  Thread Starter [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-formatting-pages/#post-4093262)
 * Ok. Other problems I’m now noticing that I haven’t had before. The sidebar is
   not pushing content left (referenced above), but it also isn’t floating all the
   way to the right, and although I have it set to align-text left, it’s still centering.
   I’m thinking this is some part of the page CSS format, but I have no idea how
   to resolve that.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-formatting-pages/#post-4093265)
 * Start by correcting your [CSS errors](http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css3&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cinemasight.com%2Ffilm-reviews%2Ffilm-reviews-2000-2009%2F2009-reviews%2F).
 *  Thread Starter [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * (@oscarguy)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-formatting-pages/#post-4093275)
 * Trial and error, I guess. The image format for page may have been bleeding through
   into the sidebar. After I positioned the sidebar-image formatting above the regular
   sidebar formatting, it seemed to work. I have no idea why, but at least it’s 
   working now.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [OscarGuy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oscarguy/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-formatting-pages/#post-4093275)
 * Status: not resolved

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