I’m sorry but it is really beyond the scope of these forums to deal with general CSS issues. Try a dedicated CSS resource such as http://www.css-discuss.org/ instead. In the meantime, try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS work. Or use whatever developer tool is available in your web browser.
http://getfirebug.com/
Thanks for the reply. Sadly, firebug doesn’t help me too much since I know the code, I wrote it, I just don’t understand why the sidebar doesn’t come up to the top, I thought someone may spot something in the code that causes this.
You generally need to use “float” in the CSS to put elements side by side. The sidebar cannot be inside the content div either if it’s supposed to be next to it, so your HTML structure needs modifying as well.
Thanks, I’ll look into that!