Title: Sidebar Menu Problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sidebar Menu Problems

 *  [engraphik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engraphik/)
 * (@engraphik)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/)
 * Hi,
 * So i’m relatively new to css and wordpress, trying to get a sidebar to work but
   for some reason i can’t vertically align text within the sidebar – [http://gaiya.clarzzique.com/](http://gaiya.clarzzique.com/)

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154628)
 * You have code errors that prevent the links (about, etc.) from aligning vertically.
   Each item in an unordered list needs to be surrounded by a `<li>` and a `</li
   >` tag. For example:
 *     ```
       <ul>
       <li>item 1</li>
       <li>item 2</li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [engraphik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engraphik/)
 * (@engraphik)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154800)
 * Okay i’ve done that but now the alignment of text is off, in firefox the bottom
   three links have cut off and aligned to the center, and in IE all of the links
   are aligned to the center.
 * also, how can i remove the bullets?
    `list-style: none;` doesn’t seem to work
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154802)
 * It looks like a problem with the css now, but I’m not sure what exactly is wrong.
   You do have some errors in your stylesheet that need fixing:
 * **background-colour** should be **background-color**
 * **background-color: none;** should be deleted or set to **background-color: transparent;**
 * **valign: center** is incorrect and missing a semicolon and should instead be**
   vertical-align:middle;**
 *  Thread Starter [engraphik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engraphik/)
 * (@engraphik)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154841)
 * Thanks iridiax i’ve fixed those up, and it seems somehow been able to align my
   menu now and removed the bullets.
 * But for some reason it doesn’t seem like the margins in `.narrowcolumn` within
   the style css are defining the placement of the menu, i’ve been changing values
   without effect. Instead the changing the `body` structure margin has moved my
   menu across, but will this affect the pages i put in later?
 *  Thread Starter [engraphik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engraphik/)
 * (@engraphik)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154842)
 * Im also encountering problems with changing
 *     ```
       color: #fff;
       text-decoration: none;
       ```
   
 *  within the side bar menu, where should these go?
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154878)
 * Try:
 *     ```
       #sidebar a:link {color: #fff; text-decoration:none;}
       #sidebar a:visited {color: #fff; text-decoration:none;}
       #sidebar a:hover {color: #fff; text-decoration:underline;}
       #sidebar a:active {color: #fff; text-decoration:underline;}
       ```
   
 * As for margins, they can be tricky. I’d recommend adding main column content 
   and testing them out with it.
 *  Thread Starter [engraphik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engraphik/)
 * (@engraphik)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154928)
 * thank you, it worked in firefox, but it doesn’t appear to be working in IE.
 * with the side columns, they move around when i resize my browser window, is there
   anyway to stop the menu from doing that?
 *  Thread Starter [engraphik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engraphik/)
 * (@engraphik)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154931)
 * the menu seems to not be working in IE at all, its just showing up at the top
   of the page in plain text.
 * is there any way i can align these boxes properly? if you try clicking on the
   links the side menu starts moving around and the text size also changes.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-text-and-position/#post-1154931)
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