Title: Style problem
Last modified: December 28, 2016

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# Style problem

 *  [firstbigweekend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstbigweekend/)
 * (@firstbigweekend)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-problem-7/)
 * Mind you this is all being done on a newish iBook G4…
    Anyway, I just installed
   the beta this afternoon, my first experience with WP (this being at [my new site](http://www.seeingconditions.com).
   Before installing, though, I looked at a lot of potential styles I could use 
   and tweak to my preferences. I finally decided on Human Condition from Alex’s
   [Styles Competition](http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/styles.php).
   I tried it on my test site and it worked fine. When I tried it on my new site,
   though, it doesn’t work properly when there are so few posts that the “content”
   div is shorter than the “menu” div. In Mozilla, the “credit” footer is right 
   under the bottom post, and in IE and Safari, the footer is in the proper place,
   but the background image for “content” doesn’t repeat-y. Anyone have any ideas
   what could be wrong with this? My CSS is located [here](http://www.seeingconditions.com/blog/wp-layout.css).

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 *  Thread Starter [firstbigweekend](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firstbigweekend/)
 * (@firstbigweekend)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-problem-7/#post-47688)
 * I realize this could just be some issue between the old version of WP and the
   beta, but I figured I’d ask you all just to see if anyone has any other ideas.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-problem-7/#post-47690)
 * It’s probably just an issue with the style when there aren’t many posts. Try 
   posting some things so your content area is longer than the sidebar and see how
   it looks.
 *  Anonymous
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-problem-7/#post-47692)
 * The problem here is that a really cool WP css style is not necessarily of the
   technical specification that some people want. It seems obvious that we would
   want the bg color of the content to be constant down to the end of the menu regardless
   of the height of either div. Unfortunately that is a deceptively simple requirement
   and is not easy to deliver. Legacy browser compatibility requires a substantial
   reconstruct if that is what you are after; and a serious amount of delving into
   css layout. Good luck anyway.
 *  [randybrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/randybrown/)
 * (@randybrown)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/style-problem-7/#post-47719)
 * > …or we can rethink whether our table-less sites still need to look table-based
 * Yes, indeed. We have this perfectly great canvas to work with, yet place boxes
   on it and cram our content into the boxes. 😉 Weblogs have been fairly instrumental
   in helping break the pattern of only allowing site menus on the left. Perhaps
   it’s time for other OOTB thinking….
    <rb>

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