Title: Sidebar – float or position…
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar – float or position…

 *  [prjg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iiiiiiiv/)
 * (@iiiiiiiv)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-float-or-position/)
 * Howdy,
 * On my blog – [http://www/ulujain.org/blog/](http://www/ulujain.org/blog/) (warning:
   not safe for work) I’ve tinkered with the Anarchy them and have most things the
   way I want, except the sidebar…
 * The sidebar’s CSS uses absolute positioning, but I’d like something else, like
   floating or something, as it precludes me from putting a footer in there as both
   overlap if the page is short.
 * I’ve tried float: left but it just throws the sidebar under the main page.
 * I’d like it to be flush with the top line of the first post, as I have it now.
 * Any solutions?

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 *  [dermarki](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dermarki/)
 * (@dermarki)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-float-or-position/#post-363114)
 * You are is using a flexible layout with a fixed-width-sidebar. In this case you
   might look at that article on alistapart:
    [http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/negativemargins/)
 * I’m using this method on my website, too. It works fine 🙂 . I just limited the
   minimum-width and the maximum-width of the whole page but it the main code is
   the same.
 *  Thread Starter [prjg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iiiiiiiv/)
 * (@iiiiiiiv)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-float-or-position/#post-363135)
 * Wow, that did it! I had to mess with it a little to get around IE 6.0’s horror
   way of calculating margins and stuff, but it worked. I use FF as my browser, 
   but still…
 * Thanks for your help.

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