Title: Margin / Padding Problem ?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Margin / Padding Problem ?

 *  Resolved [Seaborn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyhog/)
 * (@joyhog)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/)
 * So, Im trying to edit Dan Masters Beach House theme to fit my needs. I moved 
   the sidebar from the right to the left by doing the following:
 * “1. wp-content\themes\default\index.php
    find <?php get_sidebar(); ?> move it
   to the top of the page, right under <?php get_header(); ?>
 * 2. wp-content\themes\default\styles.css
    a) ctrl-F to find “Begin Structure” (
   it’s a comment in grey) find .narrowcolumn {etc.} –remove “float:left;” –change
   margin tag to this: “margin: 0px 0 0 210px;”
 * b) ctrl-F to find “Begin Sidebar” (it’s a comment in grey)
    –find #sidebar (first
   one on top) –add “float:left;” –change margin-left to 5px “
 * It worked fine, but now that im adding additional content to the sidebar I see
   that it’s moving everything past the 1st post down.
 * Also, viewing the page in Windows IE pushed all the text right. I havnt really
   had a chance to try to fix that since i do not regularly have access to windows
   IE.
 * I have been playing around with the padding and margins, I moved the sidebar 
   out to the left and content out to the right but the problem is still there. 
   Im new to PHP and CSS though.
 * Anyone out there have any suggestions?
 * [http://patricksarni.com/blogtest/wordpress/](http://patricksarni.com/blogtest/wordpress/)

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-436845)
 * I see 2 possible problems. You have a missing `<li>` right before your google
   stuff starts.
    Also, your top post is just one humongously long sentence without
   any formatting.
 *  Thread Starter [Seaborn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyhog/)
 * (@joyhog)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-436847)
 * I have added 2 different post since and the same problem.
    Whats strange is when
   I view the site with Windows Firefox the space problem is not there. If you click
   on and post and view the single post, you will see that after the ad, the content
   bleeds in the sidebar. Perhaps that’s part of the problem?
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-436850)
 * Just for kicks – edit the RAWvolution post without the wysiwyg editor on.
 *  Thread Starter [Seaborn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyhog/)
 * (@joyhog)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-436940)
 * No dice. Something must be wrong with my sidebar if content is bleeding into 
   it though. Any ideas??
 *  Thread Starter [Seaborn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyhog/)
 * (@joyhog)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-437156)
 * Fixed with a couple margin and float touch ups.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-437162)
 * So could you mark this resolved, then? Thanks….

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## Tags

 * [margins](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/margins/)
 * [padding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/padding/)
 * [windows](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/windows/)

 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/margin-padding-problem/#post-437162)
 * Status: resolved

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