Sidebar width issues for dummies

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  shakatak66 · Member · Nov 16, 2010 at 10:12 am

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  Hi everyone, I’d really love some help with my sidebar issue, if that’s OK. I’m a real dummy where HTML/CSS is concerned – I managed to play with the code of the Contempt theme, and had my blog displaying beautifully, but then all of a sudden the width of the sidebar shrunk – I’d cleverly retained a backup copy of my blog code and re-pasted it all, and that fixed my blog for a short while – but this time it doesn’t matter what I do I can’t get the blog settings back again. If anyone could offer advice, I’d be really really grateful. I’ve copied the entire code below – thanks in advance to anyone who can offer assistance!
  Cheers,
  Anne

  body {
  font-size:62.5%;
  font-family:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  background-color:#c3cae3;
  color:#333;
  text-align:center;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

  #topbar {
  max-width:940px;
  height:25px;
  line-height:23px;
  background:#6E7B8B;
  overflow:hidden;
  border-bottom:1px black solid;
  margin:0;
  }

  #topbar a,#topbar {
  font-family:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  text-align:right;
  padding-right:5px;
  }

  #pagebar {
  width:940px;
  height:35px;
  border-bottom:1px black solid;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

  #pagebar a {
  font-family:”Trebuchet MS”, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  color:#2e3342;
  font-size:1.5em;
  display:block;
  float:left;
  border-right:1px #CECECE solid;
  text-align:center;
  height:27px;
  padding:8px 15px 0;
  }

  #pagebar a:hover {
  background-color:#CECECE;
  text-decoration:none;
  }

  #pagebar li {
  list-style:none;
  }

  .entry {
  font-size:1.2em;
  font-family:Verdana;
  overflow:hidden;
  }

  #page {
  text-align:left;
  background-color:white;
  width:940px;
  border:0;
  margin:0 auto;
  padding:0;
  }

  #header {
  border-bottom:1px black solid;
  height:240px;
  width:100%;
  background-color:#73a0c5;
  margin:0 auto;
  padding:0;
  }

  #content {
  float:left;
  width:610px;
  margin:-60px 40px 0 0;
  padding:0 0 20px 40px;
  }

  #content .entry {
  line-height:1.5em;
  }

  .alt {
  background-color:#f8f8f8;
  border-top:1.5px solid #2e3342;
  border-bottom:1px solid #2e3342;
  margin:0;
  padding:10px;
  }

  #footer {
  background-color:#eee;
  width:940px;
  clear:both;
  border-top:1px black solid;
  margin:0 auto;
  padding:0;
  }

  small {
  font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
  font-size:1.2em;
  line-height:1.8em;
  }

  small.cats {
  text-transform:uppercase;
  font-family:Helvetica, Verdana;
  font-size:1.2em;
  }

  h1,h2,h3 {
  font-family:’Trebuchet MS’, ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  font-weight:bold;
  }

  h1 {
  font-size:4em;
  color:#2e3342;
  text-align:center;
  padding-top:40px;
  margin:0;
  }

  .description {
  font-size:1.2em;
  text-align:center;
  margin-top:-5px;
  }

  h2 {
  font-family:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  font-size:2.1em;
  color:#2e3342;
  margin:30px 0 0;
  }

  h2.pagetitle {
  font-size:1.6em;
  margin-top:30px;
  text-align:center;
  }

  #sidebar h2 {
  font-family:Verdana, Sans-Serif;
  font-weight:bold;
  text-indent:10px;
  background-color:#B6bdd5;
  color:#2e3342;
  text-transform:uppercase;
  font-size:1.4em;
  margin:0;
  padding:3px 0;
  }

  h3 {
  font-size:1.3em;
  margin:30px 0 0;
  padding:0;
  }

  h1,h1 a,h1 a:hover,h1 a:visited,.description {
  text-decoration:none;
  color:#B0C7FF;
  }

  h2,h2 a,h2 a:visited,h3,h3 a,h3 a:visited {
  color:#333;
  }

  h2,h2 a,h2 a:hover,h2 a:visited,h3,h3 a,h3 a:hover,h3 a:visited,#sidebar h2,#wp-calendar caption,cite {
  text-decoration:none;
  }

  .entry p a:visited {
  color:#b85b5a;
  }

  .commentlist li,#commentform input,#commentform textarea {
  font:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  }

  .commentlist li.depth-1 {
  font-size:1.1em;
  }

  .commentlist li {
  font-weight:bold;
  list-style:none;
  margin:15px 0 3px;
  padding:5px 10px 3px;
  }

  .commentlist cite,.commentlist cite a {
  font-weight:bold;
  font-style:normal;
  font-size:1.1em;
  }

  .commentlist p {
  font-weight:normal;
  line-height:1.5em;
  text-transform:none;
  margin:10px 5px 10px 0;
  }

  .commentlist .avatar {
  float:right;
  border:1px solid #ddd;
  padding:2px;
  }

  p.about {
  text-align:center;
  background-color:#F8F8F8;
  font-size:1.2em;
  font-family:Arial, Verdana, Sans-Serif;
  }

  #commentform p {
  font-family:’Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  margin:5px 0;
  }

  .commentmetadata {
  font-weight:normal;
  font-size:1em;
  display:block;
  margin:0;
  }

  #sidebar {
  font:1.1em ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  width:215px;
  margin:0 0 0 610px;
  padding:10px 0;
  }

  small,#sidebar ul ul li,#sidebar ul ol li,.nocomments,.postmetadata,blockquote,strike {
  color:#777;
  }

  code {
  font:1.1em ‘Courier New’, Courier, Fixed;
  }

  #pagebar li.page_item {
  display:inline;
  }

  acronym,abbr,span.caps {
  font-size:.9em;
  letter-spacing:.07em;
  cursor:help;
  }

  a,h2 a:hover,h3 a:hover {
  color:#7D9EC0;
  text-decoration:none;
  }

  a:hover {
  color:#C67171;
  text-decoration:underline;
  }

  #wp-calendar #prev a {
  font-size:9pt;
  padding-left:10px;
  text-align:left;
  }

  #wp-calendar a {
  text-decoration:none;
  display:block;
  }

  #wp-calendar caption {
  font:bold 1.3em ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
  text-align:center;
  width:100%;
  }

  #wp-calendar th {
  font-style:normal;
  text-transform:capitalize;
  }

  #headerimg {
  height:240px;
  width:100%;
  background-image:url(‘http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b193/shakatak66/FeatherStitchingNormal21Oct09.jpg’);
  margin:0;
  }

  .post {
  margin:0 0 30px;
  }

  .widecolumn .post {
  margin:0;
  }

  .sticky h2 {
  background:#5581C0;
  color:white;
  padding:10px;
  }

  .postmetadata {
  clear:both;
  }

  .narrowcolumn .postmetadata {
  padding-top:5px;
  }

  .widecolumn .postmetadata {
  margin:30px 0;
  }

  #footer p {
  text-align:center;
  margin:0;
  padding:10px 0;
  }

  h3.comments {
  margin:40px auto 20px;
  padding:0;
  }

  p img {
  margin:0 5px;
  padding:0;
  }

  img.centered,img.aligncenter {
  display:block;
  margin-left:auto;
  margin-right:auto;
  }

  img.alignright {
  display:inline;
  margin:0 0 2px 7px;
  padding:4px;
  }

  img.alignleft {
  display:inline;
  margin:0 7px 2px 0;
  padding:4px;
  }

  .alignright {
  float:right;
  }

  .alignleft {
  float:left;
  }

  html>body .entry ul {
  margin-left:0;
  list-style:none;
  text-indent:-10px;
  padding:0 0 0 10px;
  }

  html>body .entry li {
  margin:7px 0 8px 10px;
  }

  .entry ul li:before,#sidebar ul ul li:before {
  content:”o “;
  }

  :first-child+html>body .entry ul {
  margin-left:0;
  list-style:disc;
  text-indent:10px;
  padding:0 0 0 10px;
  }

  :first-child+html>body .entry ul li {
  margin:7px 0 8px 10px;
  }

  .entry ol {
  margin:0;
  padding:0 0 0 35px;
  }

  .entry ol li {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

  .postmetadata ul,.postmetadata li {
  display:inline;
  list-style-type:none;
  list-style-image:none;
  }

  #sidebar ul,#sidebar ul ol {
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

  #sidebar ul li {
  list-style-type:none;
  list-style-image:none;
  margin-bottom:20px;
  }

  #sidebar ul p,#sidebar ul select {
  margin:4px 0 8px;
  }

  #sidebar ul ul,#sidebar ul ol,#sidebar ul div {
  background-color:#F8F8F8;
  border:1px #2E5D99 solid;
  padding:8px;
  }

  #sidebar ul div.textwidget ul {
  border:0;
  }

  #sidebar .widget {
  overflow:hidden;
  }

  #sidebar ul ul ul,#sidebar ul ol {
  background:transparent;
  border:none;
  margin:0 0 0 10px;
  padding:0;
  }

  #sidebar ul div div {
  background:transparent;
  border:none;
  margin:0;
  }

  ol li,#sidebar ul ol li {
  list-style:decimal outside;
  }

  #sidebar ul ul li,#sidebar ul ol li {
  margin:3px 0 0;
  padding:0;
  }

  #searchform {
  text-align:center;
  margin:10px auto;
  }

  #sidebar #searchform #s {
  margin-top:8px;
  width:115px;
  padding:2px;
  }

  #sidebar #searchsubmit {
  padding:1px;
  }

  .entry form {
  text-align:center;
  }

  select {
  width:130px;
  }

  #commentform input {
  width:170px;
  margin:5px 5px 1px 0;
  padding:2px;
  }

  #commentform textarea {
  width:100%;
  padding:2px;
  }

  #commentform #submit {
  float:right;
  margin:0;
  }

  .commentlist {
  text-align:justify;
  padding:0;
  }

  .nocomments {
  text-align:center;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

  #sidebar form {
  margin:0;
  }

  #wp-calendar {
  empty-cells:show;
  width:155px;
  margin:10px auto 0;
  }

  #wp-calendar #next a {
  padding-right:10px;
  text-align:right;
  }

  #wp-calendar td {
  text-align:center;
  padding:3px 0;
  }

  #wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
  background-color:#fff;
  }

  acronym,abbr {
  border-bottom:1px dashed #999;
  }

  blockquote {
  padding-left:20px;
  border-left:5px solid #ddd;
  margin:15px 30px 0 10px;
  }

  blockquote cite {
  display:block;
  margin:5px 0 0;
  }

  .center {
  text-align:center;
  }

  hr {
  height:1px;
  color:#AAAAAA;
  background-color:#AAAAAA;
  border:0;
  }

  a img {
  border:none;
  }

  .navigation {
  display:block;
  text-align:center;
  margin-top:10px;
  margin-bottom:30px;
  }

  #akismetwrap #akismetstats {
  margin:0 auto;
  }

  .aligncenter,div.aligncenter {
  display:block;
  margin-left:auto;
  margin-right:auto;
  }

  .wp-caption {
  border:1px solid #ddd;
  text-align:center;
  background-color:#f3f3f3;
  padding-top:4px;
  -moz-border-radius:3px;
  -khtml-border-radius:3px;
  -webkit-border-radius:3px;
  border-radius:3px;
  margin:10px;
  }

  .wp-caption img {
  border:0 none;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  }

  .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
  font-size:11px;
  line-height:17px;
  margin:0;
  padding:0 4px 5px;
  }

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  hallluke · Member · Nov 16, 2010 at 11:56 am

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  Are you adding that CSS to the existing code or are you starting completely from the underlying theme?

  You seem to have a problem with the margins and padding. They don’t line up and you’re using negative amounts where you really don’t need to be using them.

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  shakatak66 · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 9:27 am

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  I added to the existing code originally, and just kept changing items and previewing to work out what each item did. See, I told you I was a real dummy at this!!! I did notice that when the page loads, the original theme loads in the background, then my new changes overlay on top, which is obviously not ideal!

  I keep thinking perhaps I should try a new theme and tweak it, but I really do like the overall look that I have now and the clean lines and colours … it’s just that right sidebar that no longer works :/