Sidebar moved to new location
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After adding 2 nested pages to my blog, the sidebar does not display on the side where it belongs but in a continuing column at the bottom of the new content, here: http://naniprints.wordpress.com/print-consulting/projects-roll/ and here: http://naniprints.wordpress.com/print-consulting/writing-editing-and-the-web/
What I did: Earlier I had written a tables test page (to test out tables html–groan–in the interest of doing 2 side-by-side columns instead of that long project roll list), but deleted it when I couldn’t make leading format consistentlly between tables and heads.
I think the sidebar problem started to appear after that.
Can somebody clue me in on how to get sidebar to display right on these 3 secondary pages? I’ve had a similar problem one other time, and support told me it was some errant html someplace. (I checked these 2 pages and don’t see any, but I could easily have missed it, html near-virgin that I am!) Thanks for your help. ~Nani
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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PS On second examination, the sidebar appears at the bottom of the project roll page, and on the side but way off to the far left and with odd type formatting on the writing projects page.
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Yep, there is DEFINITELY some HTML going awry. Try going to Settings and choosing “WordPress should correct invalidly nested HTML” and reloading the page. You may have to give it a token Edit, like adding a period or something. That usually fixes these things.
And tables? are a nightmare if you’re not a happy HTMLer. I speak from experience. Either use an online table generator and be scrupulous with the code copy/paste or don’t bother.
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Hi, Thanks for taking a look.
You know, when I go to Dashboard=>Settings=>General, I don’t see that invalidly nested HTML control I’ve read about here and elsewhere. Just time and email settings.
I was determined and scrupulous, started over with the tables today in the simplest possible coding for the Projects page. (no “save as web page via excel.” that had given me lots of extraneous junk code.) This time I wrote the code in textedit, pasted it in as plain text. You can see if my results on http://naniprints.wordpress.com/print-consulting/projects-roll/ s passes muster.
It still displays the sidebar wrong, though, so there must be some errant code bit in it that I can’t find.
The Writing page, http://naniprints.wordpress.com/print-consulting/writing-editing-and-the-web/ now appears correct. It does not have any tables.
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Yay! I resolved it. What’s a <div> anyway? Took them out. Things are fine. Thanks for your help…
-Nani
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