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Tagged: Sidebar, widgets

  • This topic has 4 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 8 months ago by paulag01.
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  • September 14, 2015 at 8:52 am #165430
    paulag01
    Member

    I am using Genesis Sample Child theme... and am a bit befuddled why I am getting an extra 2 horizontal lines on the sidebar for this site

    http://thetimef.wwwss22.a2hosted.com/blog/

    There should be one beneath "transitions and time" but there are 2 stray ones there. I have been checking my sidebar widgets but can't quite figure out where they are coming from.

    Any ideas of where to nip this in the bud?

    Thanks

    http://thetimef.wwwss22.a2hosted.com/blog/
    September 14, 2015 at 9:45 am #165439
    Christoph
    Member

    Hi,

    the site has a bunch of markup errors:

    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthetimef.wwwss22.a2hosted.com%2Fblog%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

    I guess that translated into one or two </div> elements being left over, causing the lines.


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    September 14, 2015 at 9:50 am #165440
    paulag01
    Member

    I did see that Christoph.

    Problem is a lot of the validation issues are generated by items I did not create nor am I customizing. Example - some of those come from the Yoast plugin. I am certainly not going to start hacking their code.

    Was hoping to find some stray <div> or something.

    If you have any advice on how to strip out the validation errors (ones I don't have control over) vs ones I do when I look at the report, I'm all ears.

    Thanks for your time.
    p

    September 14, 2015 at 1:26 pm #165455
    Christoph
    Member

    I would take a look at the errors starting around line 230.

    Firefox flags a bunch of tags in red in the page source, which usually indicates a problem:
    http://screencast.com/t/N4lbRlCRSE6
    http://screencast.com/t/H18h8ss5E


    https://www.christophherr.com | Genesis Customizations | Buy me a coffee

    September 15, 2015 at 9:05 am #165580
    paulag01
    Member

    Appreciate it. Going nuts... fixing what I see but not solving those darn lines.

    Appreciate the screencasts.

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