Title: Help please, CSS problem!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help please, CSS problem!

 *  [JasonGW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jasongw/)
 * (@jasongw)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-css-problem/)
 * I’m running a WordPress 2.6 site, and have been working on a customized theme
   for a few days. I’ve got some of it working right, but not all of it, and I’m
   about to pull my own head off, which is bound to be messy.
 * I started with three-col-kubrick as a base, and replaced the header with my own
   fancy version. I also replaced the centered background, which so far works well.
   However, I am trying to adapt my posts to use a 3 piece graphical set as their
   background (currently working with images modified from the Photo-frame theme
   as a starting point, which I intend to fully replace later once I’ve gotten this
   working properly), and though this appears to be working now, there seems to 
   be at the top and bottom some additional repeats of the 467×1 background image
   outside the boundaries of each post, which of course looks terrible and is overlapping
   the transparent edges of the top and bottom.
 * In addition, for some reason the sidebars (2 of them, on the right) are now appearing
   under the main content area instead of to the right, and I have no idea why.
 * Any help would be gratefully appreciated! I’m posting code here! The CSS file
   is a bit messy yet as I’ve used bits and pieces from different places and have
   also modified positions and such to fit my style a bit better.
 * CSS File:
 * _[Moderated: Too much code. Please consider placing the code in a text file on
   your site with a link here -or- use a pastebin service such as [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca).
   Thanks!] _

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 *  [csleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csleh/)
 * (@csleh)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-css-problem/#post-863039)
 * Try using Firefox browser and install the firebug extension. Then you can view
   the page, make changes to the css until it looks good, then copy the code to 
   paste in your stylesheet.
 * background images: is there a no-repeat declaration?
    Sidebars: sounds like a
   float issue. Try changing the width and see what happens. Remember, browsers (
   well, ie) don’t like the measurements to add up to 100% of containter width.
 * Also, some users won’t have images turned on so make sure the background of the
   areas with photos is set to keep the type legible.
 *  [jberghem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jberghem/)
 * (@jberghem)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-css-problem/#post-863040)
 * if you have the theme running on a test server (online) send a link so we can
   see for ourselves (I like the holistic approach)
 * Tips I can give you:
    If you’re having problems with layout, first validate the(
   X)HTML ( [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/) ). A missing close
   tag for example can really mess things up with the layout, even though it’s done
   with CSS.
 * Make sure that you don’t have a conflicting line of code further down in your
   CSS file. Kubrick often has more than one instance of the same selector so double
   check. (move your code to the bottom of the file and add !important to check 
   for conflicts)
 * Be careful not too make your general or global styles too specific. You’ll have
   problems when you want to style something specific later on.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-please-css-problem/#post-863040)
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