Title: Sidebar error
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar error

 *  [Robin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hismuse/)
 * (@hismuse)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/)
 * This error comes and goes. I tried looking it up [here](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffragilemusings.net)
   but there is nothing. Can anyone help? It seems to look ok in IE but not ok in
   Firefox.

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353269)
 * Will you describe the error for us?
 *  Thread Starter [Robin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hismuse/)
 * (@hismuse)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353485)
 * The sidebar will jump down below all the posts. I’m not sure if it’s doing it
   right now since I don’t have access to firefox. On IE at work it looks ok.
 *  Thread Starter [Robin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hismuse/)
 * (@hismuse)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353632)
 * It’s still doing this, can someone help me figure out what’s going on?
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353634)
 * When I’ve seen this happen before, it’s usually something in one of your posts.
   Did you recently modify your theme templates?
 * I visited the Simpla Theme site and saw that there is a recent update including
   a sidebar fix. Do you have the latest version?
 *  [devilmaycry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devilmaycry/)
 * (@devilmaycry)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353636)
 * This has also happened to me a number of times. Check back through some of your
   more reason posts and make sure that every HTML element is closed correctly (
   example: < strong >text</ strong >).
 *  [mutahir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mutahir/)
 * (@mutahir)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353643)
 * Thanks alot devilmaycry…I was having the same problem, and when i checked through
   one of my recent posts it had the <div> tag..and wasn’t closed properly, i just
   removed the div tag and its working fine again…
 * Regards to All of you
 * Mutahir
 *  Thread Starter [Robin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hismuse/)
 * (@hismuse)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353646)
 * Oh thanks…I will check into it asap. It’s weird though it works in IE just fine.
 *  Thread Starter [Robin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hismuse/)
 * (@hismuse)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353662)
 * So far I can’t figure it out. I might go through some of the changes I made to
   other pages. When I did the validate page like I noted in the first post of this
   support post I notice it now says:
 * Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 505, 509 it contained
   one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes
   found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check
   both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.
 * I have no idea what that means.
 *  Thread Starter [Robin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hismuse/)
 * (@hismuse)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353664)
 * Well I re-uploaded simpla theme and it works so it was obviously something I 
   added ((sigh))
 *  [newton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newton/)
 * (@newton)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353807)
 * Just change in the style.css:
 * #wrap{
    margin:0 auto; text-align:left; width:76em; display: table; width:76em;}
 * it worked in my blog.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 10 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [newton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newton/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-error/#post-353807)
 * Status: not resolved

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