Title: Sidebar CSS Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sidebar CSS Issue

 *  [n0ts0smart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efpeterson/)
 * (@efpeterson)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-css-issue/)
 * Hi folks,
 * Having trouble setting the sidebar to a fixed width and then getting it to move
   left adjacent to the content. You can see what I’m talking about here: efpeterson.
   com. The stylesheet is here: [http://efpeterson.com/wp-content/themes/simple-chrome/style.css](http://efpeterson.com/wp-content/themes/simple-chrome/style.css).
   I’ve fooled with the margins and padding, but they don’t work. They seem to just
   adjust the size of the sidebar and not the placement. Any help would be great.
   I’m done pulling my hair out…

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 *  [suzanne.earley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzanneearley/)
 * (@suzanneearley)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-css-issue/#post-1887975)
 * I feel like I need to start all of my answers with “I’m just a novice, so don’t
   laugh at me if I’m wrong…” but…I think you need to put the main content area 
   and the sidebar into a div together, so that they relate to each other. Right
   now I think they are just positioning relative to the larger container that you
   have wrapped around all of your divs.
 * I keep looking back at the Twentyten theme, and it has a wrapper that surrounds
   the header, main, and footer divs. The main div surrounds the content and sidebar
   divs.

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## Tags

 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [suzanne.earley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suzanneearley/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-css-issue/#post-1887975)
 * Status: not resolved

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