Title: Help with theme development
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Help with theme development

 *  Resolved [lgice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lgice/)
 * (@lgice)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-theme-development/)
 * I have been working on trying to get my posts on the main page to look like this
   [Link](http://postimg.org/image/adeqhp759/) but for some reason everything i 
   try it doesnt come out right the background color is not stretching the whole
   length of the div.
 * my site is [realgamers.org](http://realgamers.org)
 * any help would be great!

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 *  [s3mw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s3mw/)
 * (@s3mw)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-theme-development/#post-4179296)
 * You need to research html and css. The mods are going to tell you they don’t 
   give support over this type of thing. Which is for good reason. Just go to W3c
   and research divs on the html and css side. You can always use Google too.
 * As a tip here is a simple example, but please research what I mentioned above.
 *     ```
       <article class="post">
        <h2>Title</h2>
        <div class="datemeta">date by admin</div>
        <p>
        postbody
        </p>
       </article>
       ```
   
 *     ```
       .post {
        width: 100%;
        display block;
        background: #EEE;
        border-bottom: #CCC 1px dashed;
       }
   
       .datemeta {
        width: 100%;
        background: #333;
        display: block;
        margin: 5px 0;
        padding: 5px;
       }
   
       .post p {
        margin: 4px 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * I’m not saying this is the answer. It is just an idea of what to look for and
   what to be thinking like. This is very over simplified.

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