Title: Help needed with customizing WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help needed with customizing WordPress

 *  [chrischickenwire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrischickenwire/)
 * (@chrischickenwire)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-customizing-wordpress/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m currently styling my WordPress blog to look like my website.
 * I have managed to get a good chunk of it done.
 * However, would anybody be able to tell me how I could fix a few things….
 * [http://www.rjt-online.com/wp ](http://www.rjt-online.com/wp)
 * needs to display like this…. [http://www.rjt-online.com/blog.php](http://www.rjt-online.com/blog.php)
 * As you can see the header is in place and working, but I can’t figure out why
   the content of the blog is left justified? Also, where is the style that will
   change the background colour purely behind the content so it’s white? I need 
   it to look exactly like the blog.php page.
 * Any help would be great.
 * Thanks

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 *  [sierrajoe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sierrajoe/)
 * (@sierrajoe)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-customizing-wordpress/#post-1604272)
 * firefox firebug is your friend…
    in blog.php, the main content div is governed
   mainly by rjt_new.css: div#maincontent { background-color:#FFFFFF; float:left;
   left:0; margin:0; padding:15px; position:relative; text-align:left; width:945px;}
 * In the wp version, the “main” div is governed mainly by style.css:
    #main { overflow:
   hidden; padding:40px 0 0; }
 * there are several significant differences one of the most important perhaps is
   the float:left
 * With firefox & firebug, you simply right click anywhere on a page and select “
   inspect element” It will show you the relevant html and css, and a lot of other
   information. It will be well worth your time to install it and play with it for
   a while to become familiar with what it can do.
    joe
 *  Thread Starter [chrischickenwire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrischickenwire/)
 * (@chrischickenwire)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-customizing-wordpress/#post-1604384)
 * Thanks for the reply. I’ll look into Firebug.
 * I think I managed to sort out quite a few of the issues yesterday after I posted
   here. One issue that remains though is that it looks fine in all browsers except
   Firefox (in which the content is off to the right of the page).
 * I’ve had some other responses to this issue saying that I need to open the content
   after the nav and close it before the footer, but I was under the impression 
   I had done that already?…. Could you take a peek at my code and tell me what 
   I’m doing wrong?
 *  [sierrajoe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sierrajoe/)
 * (@sierrajoe)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-customizing-wordpress/#post-1604427)
 * Again… firefox’s firebug is your friend… took about a minute to edit your css
   and add a float:left to your “main” div and it solves the problem.
    line 494 
   of your style.css try:
 * #main {
    float:left; overflow:hidden; padding:40px 0 0; }

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 * [justified](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/justified/)
 * [style](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [sierrajoe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sierrajoe/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-customizing-wordpress/#post-1604427)
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