Sunday, 27 March 2016

Blogger Right Sidebar Appearing at Bottom of Blog

After composing a relatively lengthy blog regarding the problems I was having with my guttering overflowing, and, a blocked pipe to the soakaway, which you can read about by clicking here, I was distraught to see that the normal right sidebar was now appearing at the bottom of the blog.  On Googling the problem the general consensus was that one of my blog posts contained some erroneous HTML code.

To ascertain which post was causing the trouble I reverted my most recent post to draft form and viewed the blog again.  This time all was well with the right sidebar appearing where it should do.  This obviously meant that the most recent post was the problem.  Unfortunately this post was quite complicated as it combined pictures within the post etc., and, so the html code looked quite involved.  I copied the code in to word, and, then began the process of inserting the various sections into a draft blog post to try and isolate the problem.

My initial thought was that it would be something to do with the images I had inserted, but I was surprised when it occurred with the text I had inserted next to a picture in the second paragraph.  I fixed this in the draft by highlighting all the text in the compose menu, and applied the font (arial in my case), and, the font size (normal).  After applying this, the sidebar was again on the right.  Having discovered this fix, I then went to the original post on the guttering overflow problems, and, highlighted all the text in the post, and, applied the font style, and, font size.  To my relief this fixed the problem and the right sidebar appeared in its rightful (pun intended) place.

I hope this simple method works for you too.






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