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Steph wrote:

What you need to do is edit the post template (or category, archives). Make sure the top of it looks like this:

<?php include "header.php"; ?>
  <div id="container" class="clearfix">
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
  <div id="topcontent"></div>
  <div id="content"> <--changed from singlecontent to content
    <div class="clearer"> </div>
   <div class="post">
   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div class="postnavigation">

It should be something like that, that's what I'm using on the category template to have the sidebar appear there, same for the archives template. However if you try to get the sidebar on the post template, the comments box will get screwed up because of the width issues. Also make sure you have the closing </div> at the bottom so every div that is opened is also closed.

Where you have
<div id="topcontent"></div>

it should be

<div id="topcontentdouble"></div>

At least that is how I have it.

The problem I am having is it works great in Safari and Firefox, but when I use it in Internet Explorer, the post won't stop until after the sidebar ends. I'm still trying to figure that one out

Ok, managed to get this stuff working!
I took a look at the pages code and then I had to shrink down a bit the comment box via the CSS. Also modified a little the comment.php file.

Last edited by flipthedolphin (15-11-2005 11:04:26)

Without a link to your blog, it's hard to tell what's wrong.  But, when this happens, it usually means that either an image in the sidebar is wider than the sidebar, or an image in a post is wider than the post area.

I barely understand it myself.  The way I look at it is that margin is more of an absolute value, and padding is more of a relative value.  Basically:

Margin = "This object goes here."

Padding = "This object should always be surrounded by at least 'x' pixels of empty space."