Footer in Sidebar

[kllycat]

My footer seems to have a mind of its own, as now it's at the bottom of the sidebar and not the bottom of the page. Any ideas why? It's probably something really easy that I just can't see.
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TIA

[hitthosekeys]

Kelly, this type of thing usually happens if you accidentally delete (or add an extra) opening or closing div tag.

[kingdomgeek]

It looks as though there is an extra "</div>" at the end of header.php; remove it, and things may correct themselves. With it there, browsers are closing the #page container far too early, which causes the footer to lose its proper place on the page.

[kllycat]

Thanks Lisa and Rick.

I removed the extra </div> tag, but that hasn't changed anything. I've been looking at it in firebug, and I can see that it's part of the body, instead of the footer, but I can't see what's causing it.

[gdpmumin]

If there's a problem like this I can't find the source of, I almost always run the site through a validation site. That will return a list of coding errors on the page. Your page came up with about 130 errors. Now, not all of that is stuff you can fix (most of it is, though). Chris is using the Strict DTD, which is, well, very strict. I'm using a couple of embeds on my site and they almost always fail validation. But cleaning up what you can should fix your footer issue.

[kllycat]

Thanks for the link. The problem is that I then have no idea where to go from here. I'm used to looking at the nice, neat files: header: body etc. How do I find where the errors are? Some I can guess, obviously when it says header in the error I know where to go, but the others, no.

Should I compare it to the source code from my page?

[gdpmumin]

Yes, compare the results to the source code (view source) and then go find the actual places in the theme files. Some of the errors are in posts it looks like (do you use HTML or the visual editor?) and some are a result of your changing theme files. Chip away as much as you can. But don't be discouraged; many times one error will cause something else that's actually correct show up as an error in the validator. So when you clean up one spot, you may actually get rid of several more at the same time.