Title: Floating help needed
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Floating help needed

 *  [cashbagg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cashbagg/)
 * (@cashbagg)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/floating-help-needed/)
 * Here’s my site:
    [http://www.soothetube.com/](http://www.soothetube.com/)
 * As you can see I tried to add floating FB, Google+1 buttons on index.php just
   left of the content.
 * As you can probably also see, I’m not very skilled at this. How can I get those
   buttons to appear perfectly in line with top left of main content, fixed position,
   and appear as such for every resolution monitor?
 * As you can see, my coding is not very good…here’s what I currently have:
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_
 * I someone can help me out I’d be very grateful.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [peredur](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peredur/)
 * (@peredur)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/floating-help-needed/#post-2232445)
 * I think you have a design/usability/accessibility problem you maybe ought to 
   look at first, if you’ll forgive me for saying so.
 * Your page is already 1010px wide. This is OK, just. Reasonably modern laptops
   are commonly 1064 x 640.
 * However, if you add something to the left of the main content you either get 
   that something being displaced over the main content, which is what is happening
   at the moment on my laptop for example, or you will have content scrolling off
   to either the left or right or both if you give things fixed widths and positions.
 * Now, almost without exception, users **hate** horizontal scrolling. So you’ll
   likely make your site very unpopular if you force your users to scroll horizontally.
   Not only that, but some users may be left unaware of the content that has scrolled
   off the viewport. And finally, you will be making life even more difficult for
   people with visual impairments who have their screen resolutions set very low
   so that they stand a chance of reading the content without having to resort to
   other aids, like screen readers.
 * Given all that, if it was my site, I’d be looking to put these elements somewhere
   far more convenient. Most likely above the main content or in the right hand 
   sidebar somewhere.
 * But it’s your site, of course, so you can do as you please. I just thought you
   might like to consider the issues I raise.
 * Cheers
 * PAE

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/floating-help-needed/#post-2232445)
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