Forum:Issues wtih main page column tags

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Has anyone been able to get these to work? If so, can I go browse your code? I am trying to create a new wiki, and would like to use the columns , however the far left side panel is NOT staying fixed. The box with the search and your links. it is moving to the where the left column should start on the page. Also the adds, on the top right, well thought it was going to be a singular box add , instead it is two small boxes of adds , side by side , and not lining up correctly on the page. I am using the monaco sheet, and the guide for the columns help page said it was compatible. So any ideas on what I might be doing wrong ? DeathKat 13:16, August 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * It is easier to link to the wiki and fix the problems than to speculate on problems and try to guess who to fix them unseen. Also, I suspect you want to have more than two columns and I'm not sure that these tags are designed for more than just a left and right column.
 * Is it so hard to give a wiki link? -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:23 AM PST 17 Aug 2010


 * w:c:help:Help:Main page column tags. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 9:26 AM PST 17 Aug 2010

I am doing the edit on my main page step by step, even doing some copy/pasting of the tags so I dont make a spelling error. I am using source mode and not the text editor. Now what is happening is the left/upper logo is remaining, and everything from the search box on down is moving. The search box with links moves to the center of the screen, and the widgets disappear. Now my columns are working so far as creatiing the two seperate columns, its just that the Search box and links now covers over images/text that I added. I just want to find a way to make it stay stuck to the far left side. Every wiki I have ever seen has that box frozen to the far left. 70.17.198.61 17:00, August 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * This is the guide I am using http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Main_page_column_tags


 * If you decline to include alink to the wikia were the problem is as Fandyllic has asked and is requested at the top of the page we (comunity central users) are just playing a guessing game as to what the problem is! It is far easier for somebody to look at the page and 9 times out of 10 can see the problem, or just try out a few possible ideas instead of going back and forth with 'possible' solutions to what we are interpreting the problem to be from your description & the increased possibility of more errors occurring during trying to explain and implement the changes. It could be as simple as a space or punctuation mark in the wrong place. Errors in the code in some templates cause the effect you describe of the left 'menu' jumping over the main part of the page, due to missing closing span tags or divs within the templates code.


 * If it is a new wiki then if it was OK before you started changing the page you need to go back and see were it went wrong, if you changed a lot of things at once and break that change down into several smaller changes to see which bit of the code is the problem then. - BulldozerD11 19:27, August 17, 2010 (UTC)