Sidebar went wonky when adding text
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I’ve never had any trouble adding text before — just click on the “text” box in the widgets, add the html, and that’s it. But this time when I added a text box, it threw my “Recent posts” widget over the edge of the sidebar where you can only see the beginnings of each line and left a blank spot in the sidebar. On the Widgets page on my dashboard it looks perfectly normal — a couple of text boxes widgets and a “recent posts” widget under them. But on the blog it is all messed up. Any ideas what to do?
Is there a limit to hoe much can be in a sidebar? I wouldn’t think so — there is plenty of space down the page. But I wondered if maybe I removed some of the widgets it would fit right again.
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I’m not seeing the specific problem you mention, however, I see a couple of others.
First, when I am on your home page, I see a dark grey starting in the middle of the post Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt. When I look at the post on a page by itself, I don’t see that problem.
But I do see – on all pages – an alignment problem in the sidebar beginning with the Join me at SPARKPEOPLE thing in your sidebar. Did you by chance copy and paste that from another account (like Blogger)?
I suspect the two may be related. Take a look at the code there.
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Well, I had a hunch…the two contest buttons in my sidebar I had copied from a post where I had aligned them to the left. I had just copied the code from the post into the widget. I removed the “align left” from the code, and it went back to normal. But it’s odd that would affect the “Recent Posts” widget since it is a separate widget from the text widget.
Vivian, the gray begins at the bottom of my sidebar with the Contempt theme I am using. I don’t know why — it always does it when I use that theme.
I think I got the Spark People button from their site, I don;t remember. I’ll look at the code and see of maybe it has a problem.
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Well, I removed the SparkPeople button and code, but the Bog Stats and Site Meter widgets are still aligned differently that everything else.
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Like Vivian before, I’m seeing different things…
First, you’ve got a no-show (the “ahumbleheart.org/mt-static/06se/testimonies-160.gif”): the URL gives a 404-not-found response.
Second, your “BookedfortheHolidays” image is too wide. Use this code:
<img src="URL_HERE" width="180px"></a>Third, I think it would be nicer if successive images in the same widget weren’t stuck to one another. You can separate them with this (number can be smaller):
<div style="height:10px;"></div>Your Blog Stats is aligned ok – it’s a bulleted item, just like your pages, recent posts etc. But I don’t see why Sitemeter should be bulleted. The source code of your page shows it’s in a links instead of a text widget.
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