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Matt Mizwicki.
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July 7, 2014 at 8:41 pm #113308
sookie
MemberHi Guys,
The Balance theme footer widget is not stretching to match the featured home.
Am not sure what I have done wrong. I have been at it for a day now.
Thanks
http://www.ianhowlett.com/July 7, 2014 at 10:03 pm #113317Matt Mizwicki
MemberIt looks like your site http://www.ianhowlett.com/ is password protected. Can you remove the password so we can take a look?
July 8, 2014 at 8:33 am #113395sookie
MemberSorry guys about that. I have now removed the password.
Thanks
July 8, 2014 at 1:07 pm #113457Matt Mizwicki
MemberHi again Sookie.
So the problem is that your footer is inside the "inner" div. It needs to be outside the inner div otherwise it can't go to the full 100% width.
This is how your site has it...
<div id="inner"> <!-- more inner div content is here--> <div id="footer" class="footer"> <!-- all footer content is here--> </div> <!-- this is closing the footer div --> </div> <!-- this is closing the inner div -->
So the footer is inside the inner div.
It needs to be like this for the footer to be full width....
<div id="inner"> <!-- more inner div content is here--> </div> <!-- this is closing the inner div --> <div id="footer" class="footer"> <!-- all footer content is here--> </div> <!-- this is closing the footer div -->
Now the footer is outside of the inner div and should go full width.
I can't be sure what changed in your code, so you'll have to do a little searching.
Maybe there is an open div tag that didn't get closed?
Possibly you modified your code and used a hook that moved the footer? If so, you'll need to change your hook, because the one being used isn't correct. (If you're not sure what a hook is, then that's not the problem and you can ignore that part.)
July 8, 2014 at 5:19 pm #113491sookie
MemberThanks for helping Matt. I can't seem to find the code above in my styles sheet. I have looked for it.
Are you talking about this:
#inner {
margin: 40px auto 0;
overflow: hidden;
width: 960px;
}.balance-landing #inner {
margin: 20px auto 0;
}Here is my footer widget:
/* Footer Widgets
------------------------------------------------------------ */#footer-widgets {
background: url(images/gray-texture.jpg);
clear: both;
margin: 0 0 20px;
padding: 25px 0;
overflow: hidden;
}#footer-widgets .wrap {
font-size: 13px;
overflow: hidden;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
width: 960px;
}#footer-widgets .widget {
background: none;
border: none;
margin: 0 0 20px;
padding: 0;
text-shadow: #fff 1px 1px;
}#footer-widgets .widget,
#footer-widgets .widget p {
color: #777;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
}#footer-widgets .widget p {
margin: 0 0 15px;
}#footer-widgets ul {
margin: 0;
}#footer-widgets #wp-calendar thead,
#footer-widgets #wp-calendar td {
background: none;
}.footer-widgets-1 {
float: left;
margin: 0 40px 0 0;
width: 295px;
}.footer-widgets-2 {
float: left;
width: 290px;
}.footer-widgets-3 {
float: right;
width: 295px;
}/* Footer
------------------------------------------------------------ */#footer {
clear: both;
color: #888;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 20px 0;
text-transform: uppercase;
}#footer p {
color: #888;
font-family: Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
}#footer .gototop {
display:none;
}#footer .creds {
display:none;
}July 8, 2014 at 7:14 pm #113508Matt Mizwicki
MemberSookie,
Looking into it more, i def think it has to do with one of your div's in your html not being properly closed. I think maybe it's in your sidebar widgets.Notice the footer is working correctly on your contact page (which doesn't have a sidebar)...
http://www.ianhowlett.com/contact/But the footer isn't working on any page with a sidebar.
I'd move all of your widgets out of your sidebar and see if that fixes the problem. If it does, add the widgets back one at a time until the problem shows up again. Then you'll know which widget is causing the problem, and you can investigate it further.
July 8, 2014 at 7:55 pm #113511sookie
MemberThank you, thank you. You are heaven sent. It was one of the widgets with custom HTML causing problems.
July 8, 2014 at 7:57 pm #113512Matt Mizwicki
MemberWhooohooooo! Glad i could help 🙂
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