Title: Layout Nightmare
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Layout Nightmare

 *  Resolved [mcrebbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcrebbe/)
 * (@mcrebbe)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-nightmare/)
 * The left menu column on a 1.5.2 theme upgraded from a 1.2 template is causing
   me a nightmare.
 * Here is what it should look like (running under wp 1.2):
    [http://thetechnofile.com/](http://thetechnofile.com/)
 * And here is the problematic version on a testing server (running on wp 1.5.2)
   
   [http://shyster.com/wholistic](http://shyster.com/wholistic)
 * Someone help me please b4 I go insane!

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 *  [bob58](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bob58/)
 * (@bob58)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-nightmare/#post-298068)
 * On your new blog, you have different ids for the headers in the sidebar. you 
   should change it either in the sidebar.php or in you css file … could that be
   the problem ?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-nightmare/#post-298069)
 * It’s probably because beginning from 1.5.x (quite annoyingly IMO) the headings
   for the blogroll list are put in between h2 tags.
    You have two options: a) there
   is somewhere a post that tells you what to modify in a core file to get rid of
   the h2 (but you’ll have to deal with it at every upgrade) b) to style thos h2
   tags in the stylesheet by adding something like `#menu h2 { margin: 0; padding:
   0; font-size: 100%;} and probably there is a ul tag before the get links template
   tag which is not needed, but I might be wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [mcrebbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcrebbe/)
 * (@mcrebbe)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-nightmare/#post-298096)
 * Nice one Moshu, you were spot on!!
 * I changed the style sheet and I did need to remove the ul tag before the get 
   links tag, as well as the after it. It now displays perfectly in IE & Mozilla(
   there’s a first). The only problem I have now is that without the ul tags it 
   does not validate as XHTML 1.0 transitional (with them it does, but does not 
   display properly).
 * Any suggestions?
 * Thanks,
 * MC
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-nightmare/#post-298097)
 * Because the `<li id="categories">Techno Files: ` is not closed with an `</li>`
   after the last link 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [mcrebbe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcrebbe/)
 * (@mcrebbe)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/layout-nightmare/#post-298114)
 * Thanks Moshu. Sorted!

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