Try moving the sidebar code above div#wpcontent in the HTML. Or else float wpcontent left and take the float off of the sidebar.
Better yet, use tables instead of floats. I hate floats with a passion (although I realize I’m in the minority here). They break easily, especially in IE. Usually I use Firefox, but when I use IE, I frequently see blogs with their sidebars down at the bottom.
99.99% of floats breaking in ie are caused by people posting 500pixel wide images into 300pixel wide divs.
Right, which happens frequently on blogs. You have a theme that allows only 300px for the content, and if the content is any wider, then the sidebar falls to the bottom. But then users upload a 310px photo to their blog, and bam, broken.
frequently on blogs (run by people that dont know any better)…
I hear what you’re saying, trust me, I just think it’s a user issue and not a float issue. Floats are awesome 🙂 I think.
You , of course, didn’t say that was why you hated them – Im jsut guessing thats one of the reasons?
Two pretty easy fixes for that are:
1) Never upload a pic that’s wider than the container you will be displaying it in.
2) Apply a “width” attribute to the image so that it displays smaller than the container it is in.
Recognizing that we’ve deviated substantially from sparrowdog’s original question (my fault)…
The reason I hate them is that users screw them up. Usually because of the picture thing. This isn’t a problem for most websites, but for WP themes it is, since your typical user isn’t aware of what they need to do.
@jabecker: right on. But that’s something most users (of WP templates) don’t understand.
That’s all. I know I’m in the minority, although I do have table-based sites like news.google.com to make me happy.
