Title: Sidebar problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sidebar problems

 *  Resolved [valeryD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valeryd/)
 * (@valeryd)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-24/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve got problems with my sidebar, I really want my sidebar to be one color and
   to be as long as the content page. I’m using the Mantra theme with a self-made
   child theme.
 * Mantra gave an option (since the 1.9.9 update) to give the sidebar a color, however
   this doesn’t seem to work for my website. The sidebar is not the same height 
   as the content page, because my images load AFTER the sidebar is already loaded.
 * I looked through the codes of index.php, page.php etcetera, but <?php get_sidebar();?
   > is already at the bottom of the page. So that doesn’t seem to be the problem.
 * The images I use are uploaded on Photobucket.com and load after the content and
   sidebar are loaded. That’s why the content height gets bigger and the sidebar
   doesn’t follow the content(because it’s already done loading), I guess. However,
   the sidebar will get the right height when I refresh the page.
 * It’s not an option to use less images and I already resize my images to the right
   size before I upload them.
 * Does someone know how to help me with my problem? The website is [http://www.icecreampeach.nl](http://www.icecreampeach.nl)
 * I’m really sorry if this is hard to understand, English isn’t my native language,
   I’m Dutch. I hope you can understand my problem!
 * Thanks!

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 *  [codingpet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codingpet/)
 * (@codingpet)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-24/#post-3109455)
 * Hi there,
 * For your question, I believe you can do it by changing css files. I’m not familiar
   with the theme you are using and not sure how many options the theme provide.
   But the basic idea is to make the big container(the container include both the
   main content and sidebar) the pick? color(#FBCEB1) you are using. Then make the
   main content background to white. You also need to revise the the padding and
   margin of the main content. The double border should be the right border of the
   main content to make not the left border of the sidebar. Then it should be fine.
 * Like this image [http://codingpet.com/final-effect-demo.jpg](http://codingpet.com/final-effect-demo.jpg)
   I changed the style via firebug in firefox browser.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-24/#post-3109464)
 * I don’t really understand what the problem is — the page looks like to me, including
   the sidebar being the same height as the main content section. But you do have
   some mark-up coding errors that you may want to fix as some of them can affect
   the layout of the page — open, unclosed or extra or missing tags.
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icecreampeach.nl%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icecreampeach.nl%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
 *  Thread Starter [valeryD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valeryd/)
 * (@valeryd)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-24/#post-3109470)
 * I guess that’s because I’m working on it right now. 🙂 Thanks @ codingpet, your
   method is working!
    @ WPyogi, I will do that too, thanks a lot!

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 * Last reply from: [valeryD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valeryd/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-problems-24/#post-3109470)
 * Status: resolved

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