Friday, January 7, 2011

Sidebars Float to Bottom, Weird Italics in Posts and Sidebars -- Watch Your HTML Tags

Don't think you can just tell blogger to stop showing you those warnings about unclosed tags. Eventually leaving an open tag will cause serious problems with your blog's appearance.

For instance, if you are having a problem with your blogs sidebar floating to the bottom of your blog, undoubtedly you are missing a close div tag  </div> . You will have to go back and find the post with the missing tag and fix it in order to get your blog working correctly.

Another issue an unclosed tag can cause is italic styles showing up in sidebars and posts. Here it is likely an unclosed "em" tag or other font tag, like a <b> is causing the problem.  You will have to find the missing tag in the post on the page where the italics are occurring and add a close tag.  If you look at past blog pages, you will find that your fonts appear correctly.  Once you close the tag it will be fixed on the page that had the problem.

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