Title: Sidebar issues (sorry)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar issues (sorry)

 *  [surlyjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surlyjohn/)
 * (@surlyjohn)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-issues-sorry/)
 * I’ve seen the other posts, but I’m stumped…
 * My sidebar has relocated to the bottom of the page.
    [Here](http://www.surlyjohn.com/blog/?m=200407),
   and [here](http://www.surlyjohn.com/blog/?p=141) are two examples.
 * I downloaded “Fancy Archives” today, as well as changed my theme a bit (I’m using
   Exquisite 2.0, with some tweaks).
 * Here’s the thing, after reading the other similar questions, I did some checking
   and used the xhtml validator. After fixing the page so that no errors came up,
   the page was unreadable…text over images and nothing lined up. So I put it back
   the way it was. I’m not exactly xhtml literate, so I’m unsure where to go now.
 * Any suggestions?
 * Thanks,
    John

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 *  [Funkphenomenon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funkphenomenon/)
 * (@funkphenomenon)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-issues-sorry/#post-536892)
 * Most of the time layout has nothing to do with XHTML, is mostly a CSS issue.
   
   Try float: left on #content and float: right on #sidebar in your style.css .
 *  Thread Starter [surlyjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surlyjohn/)
 * (@surlyjohn)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-issues-sorry/#post-536911)
 * I did what you said, and it didn’t work at first. Then I noticed that #content
   had “overflow: hidden” so I deleted that, and everything looks great now.
 * Is removing overflow: hidden going to screw something up later?
 * Thanks!
 *  [Funkphenomenon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funkphenomenon/)
 * (@funkphenomenon)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-issues-sorry/#post-536915)
 * On my computer I didn’t notice any diference with or without overflow:hidden.
   Removing it probably won’t do no harm if you’re not using borders or backgrounds
   on #content, but it has it’s use.
 * With overflow:hidden the floating div will expand all the way down to where the
   content in that particular div ends. This is called ‘clearing floats’. I think
   you’ll notice the difference when temporarily adding a background-color to the
   float (e.g. red) and removing or adding the overflow:hidden?

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