Title: Static Page Length
Last modified: December 28, 2016

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# Static Page Length

 *  [jagsfan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jagsfan/)
 * (@jagsfan)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/)
 * When I create static pages with my WordPress blog the footer overlaps the side
   menu (I’m using Firefox) because the page isn’t longer than the side menu. Does
   anyone know how to make the page be the same size as the side menu? You can go
   to my page to see what I mean [http://jagsfan.net/contact.php](http://jagsfan.net/contact.php)
   and I don’t just want to add a bunch of <br>’s.

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 *  [randybrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randybrown/)
 * (@randybrown)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-50643)
 * I viewed your page just now using Mozzila and it displayed fine.
 *  Thread Starter [jagsfan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jagsfan/)
 * (@jagsfan)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-50758)
 * Eric, I tried doing that and it sort of works. If you go to the link I posted
   before both of the /div’s work but it doesn’t extend the page. It just writes
   end of footer after my writing and end of rap at the end of my menu and doesn’t
   fill in the rest.
 *  [eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eric/)
 * (@eric)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-50771)
 * You’ve got two lines in your code saying div id=”rap”, try getting rid of the
   second one. Basically the number of opening div tags should always match the 
   number of closing ones.
    Also, get rid of the “COMMENT”s, these were meant for
   your benefit, not to appear on the actual page. Hope this helps. Also, taking
   some time to improve your HTML is always a good idea. If you click on the “XHTML1.0”
   button on your page it will tell you what needs tightening up. It may look a 
   bit daunting at first but it’s really worth it. Once your HTML is mostly good
   this automatic validator becomes a really useful tool to help you iron out the
   occasional mistake.
 *  Thread Starter [jagsfan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jagsfan/)
 * (@jagsfan)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51116)
 * Sorry to sounds like a complete idiot but I almost have it fixed up. The code
   on that page is almost all valid but there is still a problem. I think I am missing
   an </div> somewhere but I don’t know where and then I think the page will look
   right. Whenever I try to add a </div> where I think it might go the page will
   get all messed up again. Could someone please look at the code for the page and
   tell me what I am missing? Thanks.
    [http://www.jagsfan.net/contact.php](http://www.jagsfan.net/contact.php)
 *  [eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eric/)
 * (@eric)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51344)
 * Aahh.. sorry, I forgot to say… same thing happened to me and I eventually fixed
   it by swapping the “menu” and “content” blocks around in the index.php file, 
   i.e. everything from `<div id="menu">` to the corresponding `</div>` goes before`
   <div id="content">`, instead of after like now. This is probably not the most
   elegant solution, I don’t even know why it works but it does. I’ve tested it 
   in Firefox, IE and Netscape.
    I’d be interested to hear of more elegant solutions
   if you or anyone else find one (to recap: 2-column layout with content on left
   and menu on right, each in a div, currently the only way I can get them side 
   by side is by listing the menu div before the content div in the HTML – otherwise
   menu moves below the content). Any pointers appreciated…
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51350)
 * Well now. Here we are into the heart of CSS positioning and some of the issues
   involved in even a simple two column layout. First of all I congratulate you 
   for abandoning the CSS2 absolute positioning scheme in the default layout. What
   then? Many of us will not contemplate putting our menu before the content. Why?
   It is not accessible, or semantic. Plus it involves a serious reordering of index
   php. Of more immediate use to us – it screws our search engine rankings.
    The
   recommended solution in these circumstances was, as I understand it, first proposed
   by Zeldman. The solution is to float the content left, and the menu right. That
   model is set out at the noodleincident with considerable clarity.
 *  [davidchait](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidchait/)
 * (@davidchait)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51353)
 * Yeah, if you care about search engines, you want your content first, before the
   menu stuff.
    -d
 *  [eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eric/)
 * (@eric)
 * [21 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51355)
 * Ah, the infamous voice-family hack! I read about it before but it confused me
   too much. This simple demo is much clearer, so thanks for the link! I’ll give
   this a try soon.
    The only thing that still confuses me is that the problem occurs
   in Firefox 0.8 – IE would not surprise me but I thought Firefox was standards
   compliant?
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51471)
 * Ugh. The voice-family thing never worked for me, at least not in IE5. See my 
   layout file at [UrbanMonastery.com](http://www.urbanmonastery.com/wp-layout.css).
   It’s adapted from Typepad’s 3-column layouts, though you can just use two if 
   you want.
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51480)
 * Well Firefox is standards compliant but a floated element is taken out of the
   normal document flow. Just because it looks a mess doesn’t mean its not correct.
   It normally means we haven’t marked it up right.
 *  [justinbaeder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justinbaeder/)
 * (@justinbaeder)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-length/#post-51488)
 * Thanks for the tip about the “rap” div – I didn’t know what that was for, and
   I had this problem reappear on a new site today. I probably took the rap div 
   out; I’ll check again.
    I think it also helps if you include this line: `overflow:
   hidden;` in your column divs. Six Apart always does that, though I’m not sure
   what it does. Justin

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