Title: sidebar display error after adding https external link
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# sidebar display error after adding https external link

 *  Resolved [rbseid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbseid/)
 * (@rbseid)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-display-error-after-adding-https-external-link-1/)
 * I created a custom child theme of twenty twelve at [http://www.bgcsmv.org/](http://www.bgcsmv.org/).
   The problem is that the second button in the sidebar, “Become a member” now appears
   twice. This occurs incorrectly in all current browsers. It appears correctly 
   in IE9 or in compatibility mode in IE10. The problem just occurred in the past
   24 hours after I changed the URL of the top “Donate” button to an external link.
   It used to be linked to an internal page. If you go to the external link, you’ll
   see the page has a skin of my site that appears correctly.
 * The code for sidebar.php is:
 *     ```
       <aside>
       <div id="donate"><a href="https://secure.qgiv.com/for/bgcosmv/"</a></div>
         <div id="member"><a href="become-a-member"></a></div>
         <div id="mentor"><a href="volunteer"></a></div>
         <div class="fb"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bgcsmv" target="_blank"></a></div>
         <div class="youtube"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdOjQZ-hf4Q&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"></a></div>
         <div class="tnt"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Tourandtasteofthevalley" target="_blank"></a></div>
       </aside>
       ```
   
 * My style.css for the 3 buttons in the sidebar:
    _ [no need to post CSS – it’s
   all visible on your site ]

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 *  Thread Starter [rbseid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbseid/)
 * (@rbseid)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-display-error-after-adding-https-external-link-1/#post-3784242)
 * I also just noticed that the first of the duplicated “Become a Member” buttons
   takes you to the same place as the “Donate Now” button.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-display-error-after-adding-https-external-link-1/#post-3784244)
 * Have you looked at these errors:
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bgcsmv.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bgcsmv.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
 *  Thread Starter [rbseid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rbseid/)
 * (@rbseid)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-display-error-after-adding-https-external-link-1/#post-3784267)
 * Thanks, WPyogi!
 * I replaced the missing closing bracket and it now works!

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

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 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-display-error-after-adding-https-external-link-1/#post-3784267)
 * Status: resolved

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