Title: Menu background
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Menu background

 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/)
 * Site: [http://fools.os42.com](http://fools.os42.com)
    I’ve been playing with 
   my design a bit and not sure how to move the menu to the left without making 
   the rest of the page move too. And for some reason – adding borders to the menu
   is also proving to be very difficult. If anyone has the time or inclination –
   I could really do with some help… Thanks.

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 *  [george71](https://wordpress.org/support/users/george71/)
 * (@george71)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113649)
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress) for 
   your css hacks, it helped and explained a lot for me
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113654)
 * #content {
    float: right; width: 37.5em; margin-left: 10px; } #menu { float: 
   right; width: 12.5em; } This just flipped it over for me using the FF webdev 
   bar. I’ll look at borders 🙂
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113656)
 * #menu {
    float: right; width: 12.5em; border: 3px solid #ff0000; } That adds 
   a border, but…. the top and bottom have a gap. Not quite sure right now how to
   tackle that without looking closer at the menu bg and any margin / padding.
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113661)
 * Hi Podz,
    What do you think it is that is pushing all the text to the right and
   leaving that 20px or so gap on the left? And then there is the big gap between
   the menu and the main content. I figure I should have about 50 px to play with
   but not sure how to get hold of it? I tried putting in a -left margin too but
   that messssed up IE completely… It’s all very strange.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113666)
 * #nav ul {
    color: #ffffc0; background: #332a11; margin-right: 20px; margin-left:-
   20px; In FF, playing with those last two values will line things up. I don’t 
   see a wide margin.. I’ll look some more 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113669)
 * Thanks Podz:)
    I already have that in there 🙂 …it makes my menu border jumps
   out of place but I can live with that and take it out altogether. There is still
   an issue with trying to push the menu to the left. In IE it is being pushed under‘
   something’ on the left. I think it must be related to the 37.5 and 12.5 em but
   if I go any less on the 37.5 I chop off the post bg which shouldnt be happening..
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113671)
 * It’s on the right now – can you switch it to the left ?
    If I get anything, I’ll
   screenshot for you ?
 *  Thread Starter [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113676)
 * Switched menu to left but it stays right…BUT…it has pulled it slightly left which
   is a good thing.
    It is all looking acceptable now but there are still some weird
   things going on in there. I have to say – it is always the menu section of the
   css that gives me a hard time. Thanks for your help again 🙂
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113677)
 * Noo…. css is lovely.. it’s IE !
    and np at all 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 9 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background/#post-113677)
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