# Footer issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [May 30, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712 "2008-05-30T03:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![redViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@redViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redViper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/1 "2008-05-30T03:35:20Z")
Okay so I coded my first CSS website with wordpress (hooray, I am so happy for myself!) but I’m having one slight issue. > **[Big Brother Access](http://bigbrotheraccess.com/)** > > Big Brother 19 spoilers, news, gossip, updates, live feeds coverage and more! when a post has 0 comments the footer slides to the right. When it has comments, it’s back to where it should be. Now I don’t know why this happening. Anyone shed some light? And on a side note- I was having issues getting WP’s theme-editor to work. and then all of a sudden it magically fixed itself. I don’t know how, I don’t know why - I didn’t do anything. but it fixed, and I am in love with it for that. ---
**Author:** ![simplistik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/simplistik/32/7747_2.png) [@simplistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/simplistik)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/2 "2008-05-30T13:29:08Z")
it’s cause you’re not closing out your comments div this is one of those errors that had you run it through a validator it should’ve picked it up ---
**Author:** ![redViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@redViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redViper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/3 "2008-05-30T13:41:37Z")
haha nice thank you. I never run it through a validator cause I know there are tons of errors and I don’t have the patience to fix em all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![simplistik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/simplistik/32/7747_2.png) [@simplistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/simplistik)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/4 "2008-05-30T14:02:26Z")
don’t need to fix them all, just the one that’s causing your error :lol: the validator is more of a guildline and can help. i didn’t run it through the first time, i just looked at your code. since it was a common symptom of an unclosed element it was easy to find. but i just ran it through the validator and yea I can see why you may be intimidated by that :lol: ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/5 "2008-05-30T14:19:34Z")
Pfft, all of those errors are easy to fix, a different doctype will probably fix all of those input errors (but then again I just woke up so if I’m wrong, I blame it on that) and then its just a matter of giving all your image tags alt tags… and switching your \< for \< and other minor things don’t be lazy!! ---
**Author:** ![redViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@redViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redViper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/6 "2008-05-30T18:21:07Z")
I’m sorry, I’m very lazy. You don’t know how long it took me to do this. Forever. I mean, forever. I’m just happy it works! One more quick question - [http://www.bigbrotheraccess.com/forums](http://www.bigbrotheraccess.com/forums) I can’t figure out a) why when I add a margin to the body for the top of the site - it gives me a white area instead of the color of the BG and b) why the background image shrinks to the size of the forum (so when there is smaller posts - the background gets smaller) and why it doesn’t fit the whole page - it shows white too! ---
**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/7 "2008-05-30T18:30:44Z")
install and use firebug, you are defining the body { } to have a white background color. html, body {style.php ( **line 2744** ) background-color:#FFFFFF; color:#536482; } this CSS near the end of your file is overwriting this: body {style.php ( **line 126** ) background:#1A2239 url([http://www.bigbrotheraccess.com/wp-content/themes/BigBrotherAccess/images/bg3.jpg](http://www.bigbrotheraccess.com/wp-content/themes/BigBrotherAccess/images/bg3.jpg)) repeat-x scroll 0%; color:#828282; font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:10px; padding:0px 0pt; } ---
**Author:** ![redViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@redViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redViper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/8 "2008-05-31T03:11:36Z")
thank-you! and firebug is installed hopefully I will get use out of it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![redViper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3d9bf3/32.png) [@redViper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/redViper)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/9 "2008-05-31T03:25:13Z")
I love firebug!!! ---
**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/footer-issue/261712/10 "2008-05-31T04:29:36Z")
Most do, it saves so much time for finding small errors.