>From what I can see in FF/Firebug the problem that's causing the side bar to >push down is this:
#content { margin: 0 280px 0 20px; } That's a huge margin on the right side of the content div. Plus there are no width specified for either of the divs: #content & #primary. If you're not going to specify a width you should at least float the content div left along w the primary div float right as you have. Elli Vizcaino Helping artists, entrepreneurs and small businesses knock the socks off the competition! http://www.e7flux.com ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christian Kirchhoff <christian.kirchh...@editura.de> > To: "css-d@lists.css-discuss.org" <css-d@lists.css-discuss.org> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 5:54 PM > Subject: [css-d] Nesting problem in html code > > Hello, > > I am kindly asking for help hoping that a dozen pairs of eyes might see more > than I do. > > A friend of mine has a Wordpress blog: http://run-united.com > > He told me that after he changed something, there was a problem in the start > page: The right column containing certain widgets was suddenly pushed down > below > the main column with the recent article's teaser texts. Almost as if if > suddenly had a "clear: " defined. > > One problem when analyzing is that browsers sometimes do some yutocorretion > of > html text, closing elements who's closing tags are missing etc. > > But here is what I found out: On the startpage the structure within the #main > div is (viewed in Firefox/Firebug) > <div id="container"> > <div id="content"> > </div> > <div id="primary"> > </div> > </div> > <div id="footer"> > </div> > > However, if I look at the source code, I see a comment naxt to a closing > </div> saying that this ends the #container, and AFTER that the > div#primary begins. > > If I click on an article (e.g. http://run-united.com/?p=3452), the error > doesn't occur on that page. And in Firebug I see that the div#pimary comes > AFTER the div#container. > > Thus I guess the problem is that on the startpage somehow a tag is not > properly > closed or something like that, and Firefox and other browsers do some > autocorrection that results in the div#primary being within the > div#container. > And that results in the css rules being executed in a wrong way and in the > div#primary being pushed down. > > Has anybody had a similar problem and maybe knows the cause for this? > > My friend deleted the last article/post he added, but the error stayed. I > looked > at the the contents of both the last articles and the widgets within the > admin > panel of the Worpress blog, but I couldn't find any tags that weren't > closed properly. > > I apologize if this is the wrong mailing list for such a problem. Just let me > know and I won't bother any more. Otherwise any help would be appreciated. > > -- Best regards > > Christian > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/