My latest post is not displaying properly – how do I fix this?

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  dcmartin · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 10:11 pm

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  I am using the “Greyzed” theme and noticed in previews that halfway through the post I get a strange grey bar in the right margin of the post, and the white background shifts so that the composition area takes on a strange “L” shape. I tried breaking the post into pages, with no change, so I just left it as is for now…..can anyone help with this?
  Blog url: http://dcmartin.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 13, 2011 at 10:17 pm

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  I’m not noticing the problem on your blog. Is this in regards to an unpublished Draft?

  If so, can you tell us the title of the Draft?

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  dcmartin · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 10:38 pm

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  Thanks for the reply, Macmanx. The blog post is “First, Do No Harm”. I have tried clearing my cache and it is still displaying strangely for me, and one of my regular commenters confirmed it. It looks normal to you?

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  dcmartin · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 10:40 pm

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  http://passthedoucheys.com/2011/06/13/first-do-no-harm/
  It looks fine on the home page, but when you see the entire post with the permalink you will see the problem.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 13, 2011 at 11:01 pm

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  Ah, I see it now.

  You had quite a few unnecessary div tags, and some were actually part of a sidebar. It looks like you may have copied this post from somewhere and brought those along with it.

  Anyway, those are gone now, and you’re all back to normal.

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  dcmartin · Member · Jun 13, 2011 at 11:21 pm

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  Okay, thanks!
  I saw a help topic earlier that mentioned the <div> tags, but I had a hard time telling which ones should or shouldn’t be there and i didn’t want to mess it up further. The last source page for my article seemed to be having some issues of its own, so I re-blogged the whole thing (with citation) in case my readers had trouble accessing it……that must be where the problem originated.
  Thank you SO much for your help – you’re a lifesaver!!!!!!!!!!!
  Sincerely,
  DC Martin

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Jun 13, 2011 at 11:24 pm

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  You’re welcome!

  Div tags are a part of your post’s formatting, so not entirely critical.

  When in doubt, it’s always a good idea to switch to the HTML editor tab, remove all of your div tags, and switch back to the Visual editor to re-do your formatting.