Twitter sidebar widget pushing main content down

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(@thunksalot)

I recently created a Twitter feed widget using JetPack and something strange is happening: The presence of the Twitter widget in my sidebar is causing all the main content to be pushed down below the sidebar content. This happens even when I set the width of the Twitter widget to 180px, which is much narrower than the sidebar is normally, when the main content appears at the top.

Any idea what could be going on? Thanks for whatever help you can provide!

Here’s the source code in the browser when this is happening:

</div></div><div id="lastviewed-2" class="widget widget_lastviewed"><h4 class="widgettitle">Recently Viewed</h4><div class="widget-content"><ul class="lastViewedList"><li class=""><div class="lastViewedcontent"><a class="lastViewedTitle" href="http://community-staging.sustainablepurchasing.org/register-for-guidance-v1-0-release-webinar/">Register for Guidance v1.0 Release Webinar</a></div></li><li class=""><div class="lastViewedcontent"><a class="lastViewedTitle" href="http://community-staging.sustainablepurchasing.org/group-page/cohort-construction-and-renovation-materials/">Cohort: Construction and Renovation Materials</a></div></li><li class=""><div class="lastViewedcontent"><a class="lastViewedTitle" href="http://community-staging.sustainablepurchasing.org/events/">Events</a></div></li></ul></div></div><div id="twitter_timeline-3" class="widget widget_twitter_timeline"><a class="twitter-timeline" data-widget-id="628686279874609152" data-theme="light" data-link-color="#f96e5b" data-border-color="#e8e8e8" data-chrome="noheader nofooter noborders noscrollbar" width="180" height="400" lang="EN">My Tweets</a></div></div>

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                <div class="post section-header"><h1 class="h3">Welcome to SPLC’s Online Community</h1></div>

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Plugin Author Jeremy Herve
(@jeherve)

Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

10 years, 10 months ago

Could you post your site URL here, so I can have a look?

If you want it to remain private, you can also contact us via this contact form:
http://jetpack.me/contact-support/

Thread Starter thunksalot
(@thunksalot)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi Jeremy, thanks for your help. I actually figured out the problem by accident while trying to put the widget back in so you can see it. This time, it worked perfectly. It took me a minute to figure out what was different:

Yesterday, I had made the Title field in the widget blank, because that’s the way I actually want it (I don’t think a twitter widget needs any introduction). But, not having a Title apparently causes the weird problem where the sidebar pushes down the main content. I found that if I put ” ” in the Title field, I was able to achieve what I wanted.

Of course, it doesn’t seem like leaving out Title text should cause such a strange result, but hopefully my work-around will help someone else.

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