Title: CSS beginner needs some help Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # CSS beginner needs some help * [stephenolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenolson/) * (@stephenolson) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/) * I am in the process of my moving my blog from TypePad to WordPress. I have made decent progress with my stylesheeet, but am having a little problem figuring out where certain sections are located in my CSS. * My TypePad blog is here: [http://stephenolson.typepad.com/a_minor_event](http://stephenolson.typepad.com/a_minor_event) * My WordPress blog is here: [http://www.aminorevent.com](http://www.aminorevent.com) * Mostly what I need to know is which sections of the css I need to address, once I know that I pretty much know how tto fix it. * The things I can’t seem to figure out are as follows: * The border on the sidebar I currently have as the top of the content, I’d prefer it to be the bottom of the headers. I would also like more space between the header and the border… * I also don’t want the title in the banner or the post titles to be regular link colors. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [fruitfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfly/) * (@fruitfly) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/#post-330253) * Near as I can tell, in the time between when you posted this and I came upon it, you’ve figured out the bottom border on the sidebar headers. * As for the space, margin will get you what you want, but you’ve got a number of designations to cover. You’ll need to add a margin-bottom to all the headers on your sidebar. * And for the link colors: * The blog title is wrapped in `

` – so styling `#header a` should fix that one. * Likewise, the post titles are `

` – so `.storytitle a` should be where you specify that one. 🙂 * Thread Starter [stephenolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenolson/) * (@stephenolson) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/#post-330380) * Thanks for your help! * Actually, the sidebar border is on the top of the content, not the bottom of the header. * I’m also having a problem getting the elements to float on the page properly when I resize. I want them to all stay in the center, and have space added to the margins when resizing…if that makes sense… * again, thank you so much * [fruitfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfly/) * (@fruitfly) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/#post-330389) * I’m not sure what you mean about the sidebar… can you try explaining exactly what you’re trying to do? * As for the re-size align – I’m not really a CSS guru myself, but I tinkered with your CSS, and I got it a little closer to what I think you’re trying to acheive: * Add in – * `#rap { margin: 0 auto 0 auto; width: 770px; } * And then change these: * `#content { margin: 30px 13em 0 3em; width: 70%; } * and change #menu right:80px. * Did that make sense? 🙂 You can play with those margins to try and make changes… but since you’ve got #menu set to absolute, it’s going to make things funky on a smaller size (like 800×600). Someone who’s better with CSS than I am might be able to offer more direction. * Thread Starter [stephenolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephenolson/) * (@stephenolson) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/#post-330400) * I changed some of the css, and now the banner and main body do what I want, but for some reason now the sidebar is on the bottom. Do I need to edit the index. php to put the sidebar on the side? * [fruitfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfly/) * (@fruitfly) * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/#post-330403) * I think that’s because you added in some pieces after I grabbed your CSS. This whole part: * `#container { width: 700px; position: static; } * #container-inner { position: static; border: 0; background: #FFFFFF; padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px; * } * Wasn’t present in my copy. Try commenting that out temporarily, and see what you get. 🙂 Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘CSS beginner needs some help’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [beginner](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/beginner/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [fruitfly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfly/) * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-beginner-needs-some-help/#post-330403) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics