Title: sidebar too big
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# sidebar too big

 *  Resolved [grolo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grolo/)
 * (@grolo)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-too-big/)
 * I have a sidebar problem with a theme called factory.
    [http://www.area404.nl/index2.php](http://www.area404.nl/index2.php)(
   already redesigned it a little bit)
 * How can I stretch the sidebar?
 * I already tried allot of things and fixed allot of things but now I only have
   this stupid problem. Please help!

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 *  Thread Starter [grolo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grolo/)
 * (@grolo)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-too-big/#post-394287)
 * The sidebar content drops below the containing box into the background.
 *  [ebusiness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ebusiness/)
 * (@ebusiness)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-too-big/#post-394293)
 * Which way do you want to stretch the sidebar? down or to the right?
 * Is your issue that some of the side content is in the black background?
 * If you can explain the issue in more detail perhaps we can help you.
 *  Thread Starter [grolo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grolo/)
 * (@grolo)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-too-big/#post-394296)
 * Yes my issue is that some of the side content is in the black background.
 * So I want to stretch the sidebar down but the footer needs to stretch also when
   I’m doing that.
 *  [ebusiness](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ebusiness/)
 * (@ebusiness)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-too-big/#post-394298)
 * The issue is with the order and structure of your div elements in the css and
   template.
 * The div body is acting as a container to the sidebar, content and footer divs
   and all three all squeezing into the ‘body’ container.
 * Add another div as follows:
 * Body – contains ‘newdiv’ (set at 100% wide) and footer
 * Newdiv contains sidebar and content
 * In this way the footer will not be drawn until the ‘newdiv’ container is closed
   with /div ie it will be drawn below the sidebar.
 *  Thread Starter [grolo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grolo/)
 * (@grolo)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-too-big/#post-394334)
 * I tried that but maybe I’m doing something wrong it didn’t work for me.
    I made
   a wiki page on [http://www.area404.nl/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Wordpress](http://www.area404.nl/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Wordpress)
   and [http://www.area404.nl/wiki/index.php?n=Main.CSS](http://www.area404.nl/wiki/index.php?n=Main.CSS)
 * There is an edit button below maybe someone can try to fix this for me. Before
   I will jump from a bridge 😀
 * I will be very thankful

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