Title: Sidebar Positioning Issues
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# Sidebar Positioning Issues
* Resolved [buckylulu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckylulu/)
* (@buckylulu)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/)
* I am having the same issue on a theme I am working on. This is the code for the
page:
* ```
```
* And here are my css rules:
* ```
#page-wrap {
width: 80%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
#contentPage {
margin: 0 45px 30px 0;
padding:0 45px 0 0;
width:65%;
}
#rightnav {
float: right;
width: 25%;
margin: 0;
padding: 1em;
}
.sidebar {
float:right;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
vertical-align: top;
clear: right;
}
```
* Here is what [the site currently looks like](http://water-optimizer.com/_2013/water-optimizer/).
Am I missing something?
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* [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
* (@esmi)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951131)
* Try sorting out any markup errors. Then move onto any CSS errors.
[http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website)
* Thread Starter [buckylulu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckylulu/)
* (@buckylulu)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951262)
* I went ahead and did some validating, but it still isn’t positioning correctly.
I am a css novice, so please any and all advice is welcomed! Thanks.
* [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
* (@anevins)
* WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951263)
* You may want to first resolve your HTML errors before CSS.
Look at using doctypes:
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_doctype.asp).
* Thread Starter [buckylulu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckylulu/)
* (@buckylulu)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951270)
* I did and then the report came back with 3 errors that I haven’t been able to
find in any of my code. I downloaded the newest version of wordpress, switched
all doctype to fit html5; what else am I not seeing here?
* [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
* (@anevins)
* WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951271)
* You don’t have a “html” element in the right place & you have a duplicate doctype.
All we can do is suggest you resolve your HTML errors.
* Thread Starter [buckylulu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckylulu/)
* (@buckylulu)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951336)
* Where would I properly place it? When validating, I feel like this is also taking
the current site and picking up errors. I want to just be working with the wp
theme and not anything else that is within this site. I don’t see how that could
be posing an issue, though, since the wp theme isn’t pulling anything from the
current (albeit HTML) site.
* All in all, is my coding correct? Thanks again!
* [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
* (@crouchingbruin)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951346)
* Just doing a **View Source** on your site, you have 2 DIVs with an ID of **page**
and 2 DIVs with an ID of **sidebar** (although one is nested inside the other).
* As far as the sidebar positioning goes, you might try having **#contentPage**
float:left instead of **sidebar** float:right. But there are other problems that
need to be fixed.
* Thread Starter [buckylulu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckylulu/)
* (@buckylulu)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951394)
* thanks, [@crouchingbruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/),
that seemed to work…but now the footer bar moved up and the content is all messed
up. ugh…i’m pretty sure that once this is figured out, i’ll be a happy camper!
* Thread Starter [buckylulu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckylulu/)
* (@buckylulu)
* [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-positioning-issues-1/#post-3951398)
* it appears that all i had to do was add a and that seemed
to work! thanks for all of your help!
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