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A weblog of my genealogical search. Particularly pertinent to my RootsWeb relationship.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Blogger Templates on FreePages

RootsWeb recently updated their advertising banners and the change "broke" the formatting of these Blog pages. After investigating, I found that the problem most likely stemmed from the fact that their new ads cause all of my page content to be enclosed in an HTML <div> named userContentFP. To fix the problem, I updated my template by copying all the CSS instructions associated with the body and also applying them to that <div>. The code looks like this:

body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  text-align: center;
  color: #555;
  background: #bba 
      url(http://www.blogblog.com/moto_mr/outerwrap.gif)
      top center repeat-y;
  font: small tahoma, "Bitstream Vera Sans",
      "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", lucida,
       helvetica, sans-serif;
  }

#userContentFP {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  text-align: center;
  color: #555;
  background: #bba
     url(http://www.blogblog.com/moto_mr/outerwrap.gif)
     top center repeat-y;
  font: small tahoma, "Bitstream Vera Sans",
     "Trebuchet MS", "Lucida Grande", lucida,
     helvetica, sans-serif;
  }
Once I republished the blog, everything was once again properly arranged on the page.