Title: Possible conflicts with existing css
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Possible conflicts with existing css

 *  Resolved [Lesley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cornucopia-design/)
 * (@cornucopia-design)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-conflicts-with-existing-css/)
 * Hi, I hope you can help as I’m getting myself very confused! Your plugin should,
   in theory, do exactly what I need it to: my main content is sometimes shorter
   than my right sidebar so the background colour and right border of the main content
   doesn’t extend far enough. I’ve tried your plugin with what I thought to be the
   correct selectors but it doesn’t seem to work as I’m probably not selecting the
   correct thing.
 * However, although I originally designed the website it was built by someone else(
   who I can no longer contact) and they seem to have written css to solve this 
   problem but I’m not sure what it’s doing. When I firebug it it seems such a muddle
   of clearfixes, rows before and afters and to be honest, I don’t really know what
   that all means but I suspect it might not work with your plugin.
 * Here is an sample page which shows the problem: [http://ernestcooktrust.org.uk/learning-outside-the-classroom/how-it-can-work-for-your-school/](http://ernestcooktrust.org.uk/learning-outside-the-classroom/how-it-can-work-for-your-school/).
   It’s not an issue when the sidebar is shorter than the main content as the background
   is the same colour.
 * I’d be happy to buy you guys several beers if you can help me out!
 * Many thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/equal-height-columns/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/equal-height-columns/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mickey Kay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcguive7/)
 * (@mcguive7)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-conflicts-with-existing-css/#post-6532091)
 * Hi Lesley,
 * Looks like you didn’t quite have the selectors right. Try this instead: <cod>.
   main-content-home, #sidebar2. Works for me when I try to run the code on your
   site.
 *  Thread Starter [Lesley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cornucopia-design/)
 * (@cornucopia-design)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-conflicts-with-existing-css/#post-6532094)
 * Hi Mickey, thanks for your reply. Having put this off for more than a month with
   no solution, I was going to have to tackle it some other way but then you replied.
 * At first I thought it was working perfectly and was just about to reply to say
   thanks. Then I discovered a problem. It works on pages like this [http://ernestcooktrust.org.uk/learning-outside-the-classroom/resources-and-links/](http://ernestcooktrust.org.uk/learning-outside-the-classroom/resources-and-links/)
   which is just straight-forward content. However, on pages like this [http://ernestcooktrust.org.uk/grants/](http://ernestcooktrust.org.uk/grants/)
   where some of the content in the main content area displays posts, it pushes 
   the right sidebar content down to below the bottom of the main text area. I have
   taken some screen shots to demonstrate but I’m not sure I can upload them here.
   Although this particular page doesn’t actually need your plugin, others do and
   I can’t be selective on where it is used.
 * Any ideas how I can get around this? Your help is much appreciated.

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 * Last reply from: [Lesley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cornucopia-design/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-conflicts-with-existing-css/#post-6532094)
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