Adding a top margin to LH sidebar with CSS - If not td#left - then what?

arthurmild · #1 May 14, 2012, 06:48 AM

I want to shift the left sidebar down by about 20px on this site

Have tried adding

Code:

margin:20px 0 0 0 ;

to td#left (both in ATO SIDEBARS and in HTML/CSS inserts) - neither option works.

Firebug shows td#left to be the element to style - I came to CSS after the days of tables so am prob missing something simple ...?

juggledad · #2 May 14, 2012, 07:26 AM

Why not shift he center down?

arthurmild · #3 May 14, 2012, 07:33 AM

Great minds think alike !

But what if I NEEDED to move the LH sidebar (or introduce some space between its top border and the header)

I can't see why adding margin-top space to td#left has no effect

juggledad · #4 May 14, 2012, 09:13 AM

you can move it, just not with margin - the sidebar - td#left is part of a table, so you would have to move teh entire row with the margin.

You can change the postioning and move it that way.

lmilesw · #5 May 14, 2012, 09:17 AM

The reason you can't do what you want is because the area you want to target is a table cell. Besides if you add space there it will probably not look right on other pages. I think perhaps taking out the top padding in ATO>Style Posts & Pages>Post Container and removing the top border may be what you are looking for.