Title: Sidebar problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016
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# Sidebar problems
* [coreybishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreybishop/)
* (@coreybishop)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/)
* Hi.
* I was wondering how to fix my sidebar problem. See, when I installed the theme
and put in the header, the banner was big so I readjusted the header size to
fit it right. Well the header moved down, but my sidebars didn’t. I’ve spent
about a day now trying to configure the problem and inserting breaks and all,
but nothing works.
* Preview: [http://braveselite.com](http://braveselite.com)
* Thanks for the help!
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* [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
* (@drewactual)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790557)
* man, your css is a mess. I just played with it for about ten minutes..
* you have multiple calls to background images.. remember css is like a private
in the Army- it will do exactly what you LAST told it to do.. in other words
the last image will be the one displayed..
* Your widths are messed up. You will have to define those. I would suggest doing
this for starters:
* In your header.php (or the first one called anyway) create right after the tag a new division: … then go to your footer.php (or equiv)
and close it right above with
..
* then enter your css- make a new div called #wrapper… make it this:
* #wrapper {
width 80%; /*or whatever width works for you */ margin:auto; /*will
center it for you */ }
* we can move on from there….
* Thread Starter [coreybishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreybishop/)
* (@coreybishop)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790569)
* Where do you put the wrapper? Does it matter?
* [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
* (@drewactual)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790572)
* where you put the wrapper css declaration in your css is up to you… doesn’t matter…
* in your theme though, you will want to add the wrapper RIGHT AFTER the header
end tag…( )
* it will be
* Thread Starter [coreybishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreybishop/)
* (@coreybishop)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790580)
* I thought it was right after the ok if you say so lol.
* Done.
* [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
* (@drewactual)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790583)
* man, I can’t give good advice today to save my life! yes, I meant right after
* Thread Starter [coreybishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreybishop/)
* (@coreybishop)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790584)
* lol then the closing tag for that must come before the closing body tag?
* [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
* (@drewactual)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790587)
* **add this to your style.css:**
* #wrapper {width:80%; height:auto; margin:auto;}
* **replace .header with:**
* .header {
border-color:#AAAAAA; background-color:#F8F7EF; height:250px; background-
image:url(“images/header-bg.jpg”); background-repeat:repeat-x; background-position:
center; border-style:solid; margin-bottom:5px; border-width: 1px; width: 100%;
position:relative; }
* .header img {
width:90%; }
* [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
* (@drewactual)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790589)
* and uh, yup… my bad once again.. you close it before the
* I swear I will try to get it right from now on!!
* Thread Starter [coreybishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreybishop/)
* (@coreybishop)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790590)
* ok I added those two things in, and I guess that first step replaces:
#wrapper{
width 80%; /*or whatever width works for you */ margin:auto; /*will center it
for you */ }
* [drewactual](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drewactual/)
* (@drewactual)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790591)
* yup.. there I go again… maybe you should talk to someone else until I get my
caffeine groove on 🙂
* Thread Starter [coreybishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coreybishop/)
* (@coreybishop)
* [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-5/#post-790593)
* lol no on one else is around to help right now so just wing it and maybe we’ll
get it 😉 btw, do you have an MSN or YIM? It would be easier…
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