Title: Need help changing sidebar code
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Need help changing sidebar code

 *  [JG99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jg99/)
 * (@jg99)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-changing-sidebar-code/)
 * Hello – I am trying to change the location of items in my right sidebar. I want
   the first item to be a few inches farther down the page. Could someone help me
   with changing the appropriate value in my style sheet?
 * Thank you!
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 *  [csleh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/csleh/)
 * (@csleh)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-changing-sidebar-code/#post-1479248)
 * Assuming #sidebar is the right sidebar
    `#sidebar { display: block; border: 0px;
   padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; z-index: 5; position: absolute;
   top: 182px; left: 0px; }’ Change top: to something greater than 182px. this is
   only in relation to what the sidebar is absolutely positioned relative to; if
   the container that sidebar is in doesn’t have position:relative it’s hard to 
   say where sidebar will show.
 *  Thread Starter [JG99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jg99/)
 * (@jg99)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-changing-sidebar-code/#post-1479365)
 * I did as you suggested, but it’s not working. Instead what happens is my drop-
   down menu across the top moves around – this is not what I want.
 * Do you have any other suggestions? Ideally, if there was a way to just put a 
   blank space in a widget, then I could fill in all the spaces as I wish with either
   blank spaces or other items down the page!

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-changing-sidebar-code/#post-1479365)
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