cant get margin-left to work.

[darksniperx]

I am customizing drupal zen theme.

 

I am trying to set left margin of a div element using css.

#sidebar-left
  {
  margin-left:20px;
}

 

When I test it out nothing happens.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[BillyBoB]

Is sidebar-left an id or a class name?

[darksniperx]

Here is the div element, its an id.

 

<div id="sidebar-left"><div id="sidebar-left-inner" class="region region-left">
          <?php print $left; ?>
        </div></div> <!-- /#sidebar-left-inner, /#sidebar-left -->

 

Although I have no idea what this means 'class="region region-left"'. I have tried to remove it, nothing happends.

[haku]

There is probably a CSS selector with a higher precedence than the selector you are trying to use.

 

Use Firefox with the firebug plugin, and inspect that element (the left sidebar) to find out which selector is taking higher precedence.

 

Actually, there is one other possibility with Drupal - you may have your CSS set to cache. Go to admin->settings->performance (Drupal 6), and see if it is. You can clear your cache there, and any changes you have made may start to work, if there isn't a selector with higher precedence.

[darksniperx]

There is probably a CSS selector with a higher precedence than the selector you are trying to use.

 

Use Firefox with the firebug plugin, and inspect that element (the left sidebar) to find out which selector is taking higher precedence.

 

Actually, there is one other possibility with Drupal - you may have your CSS set to cache. Go to admin->settings->performance (Drupal 6), and see if it is. You can clear your cache there, and any changes you have made may start to work, if there isn't a selector with higher precedence.

 

I have tried clearing css cashe. No change.

 

Thanks, I completely forgot about firebug. It was layout-liquid.css that was taking precedence.