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Overlapping text sideboxes problem

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Started by sam_pk on 25 Jul 2006, 10:32 AM · Views: 1,354

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25 Jul 2006, 10:32 AM
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Overlapping text sideboxes problem

Hi, I've been browsing the forums for ages, learning lots and have finally needed to ask for help!

I have found that my site's text runs below the right hand sideboxes on a handful of pages. Such as this one: http://www.bmwgenuineparts.co.uk/index.php?main_page=tell_a_friend&products_id=265

I can only guess that I have made some change to the CSS that has caused this?

It seems a little strange because it only seems to happen on a couple of pages, the majority are fine. Oh, Ive just checked in Firefox and it displays differently, this time the text does not dissapear under the sidebox, but the page is forced wider, messing up the top banner.

The other thing that concerns me is that I am using the "classic" template (which I know is wrong!), do you think that that has contributed to this problem? I'm hesitant to change to my own custom template because I have spent so long customising the classic and I dont really want to start from scratch again.....

25 Jul 2006, 3:33 PM
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Re: Overlapping text sideboxes problem

its wrond to use clasic template becouse u will have problems with upgrade u may want to use override system make ur own custom tamplate :))

Otherwise ur problem is that u have to make a little change

#mainWrapper {
	background-color: #ffffff;
	text-align: left;
	width: 750px;    /* <-- change it to 800px this will fix ur problem*/
	vertical-align: top;
	}

if im not right try to experiment to desired size :)
U may need to resize ur jpg widh to fit and to not repeating at X direction

Regards,
Radoslav

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25 Jul 2006, 4:12 PM
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Re: Overlapping text sideboxes problem

Hi thanks for that, I made the change to my stylesheet_new.css but that doesnt seem to fix it, should I be looking to make a change somewhere else?

27 Jul 2006, 8:56 AM
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Re: Overlapping text sideboxes problem

I converted all the css back to the downloaded originals to see if I had messed the CSS up and I still have a problem on the "tell a friend" page.

I guess it must be something else I have changed. I think I'll try the future zen template today and see if I have the same problem with that...

28 Jul 2006, 10:04 AM
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Re: Overlapping text sideboxes problem

OK, installing Future Zen as a template seems to fix the problem, however there is a huge amount of work involved in customising it.... :down:

Has anyone any idea which particular part of the classic template/setup could be causing the overlapping of the text and sideboxes?