Recently I’ve taken on the task of building a new theme from scratch. I’m trying not to get too far ahead of myself and make sure each new component works before moving onto the next.

Currently I have a semi-custom theme that I made two years ago from the default theme by Dave Shea. You could say I’m a little out of practice. Anyway, the current theme has the wrapper div the way I like it, with a border on the left and right, centered.

The new theme isn’t working right. The validator says all is good, but I know it’s not right. I’m also using Firebug to highlight different areas and the wrapper div is never highlighted. The best I was able to do while trying to apply a border on all four sides was getting a border at the top.

Any help would be much appreciated! I don’t know if I have a CSS conflict or what. Might be worth mentioning a couple differences between the two. Old working theme has a div called “content” instead of “container” in the new one. The old one has an id for “sidebar” while the new one has a class for “sidebar”. I started the new one with instructions found at wpdesigner.com and it all seemed pretty solid until I started tweaking it myself.