How can I make a 160x600 block outside the Wordpress Container?

[efeezy]

What I want to do is have a 160x600 skyscaper ad on the left and right side of my wordpress site, but outside the main container/wrapper. Preferably just at the top of each side, starting just below the header. I've messed around with a bunch of css and I just can't figure out a way to make it work. If anyone has any tips or suggestions to try, I'm willing to try anything. Thanks.

 

[droplister]

Have you messed around with positioning? absolute vs relative.

You could also add another wrapper.

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[laner]

if you set the div that the banner is nested in to absolute and give it top/left & top/right coordinates you should be able to drop it wherever you want

 

[laner]

<div style="position:absolute;top:100px;left:0px;"><img src="yourimage.png"></div>

or you can throw an id on the div and add the style attributes to your css file.

 

[efeezy]

Ok Im getting pretty close. What I've done is ad this to the header

<div style="position:relative;width:1300px; margin:0 auto;">
<div style="width:160px; left:-100;top:75px; position:absolute; height:600px; background-color:gray;">/////AD CODE GOES HERE\\\</div>

and then I put a </div> in the footer to close it. I've got it working on the left side, just need to get the right.

The only other issue I have is that I only want this to show on single.php, not on the homepage and every other page.

 

[laner]

if (substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 0, 5) == '/single.php') {
echo '<div id="img_div"><img src="yourimage.png"></div>';
}

 

[efeezy]

if (substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 0, 5) == '/single.php') {
echo '<div id="img_div"><img src="yourimage.png"></div>';
}

Hmm, I can't make that work in the header. I've got the banners positioned where I want them now. I just need to get the single.php only sorted out. Any suggestions? Thanks for the help so far. It's taken me days to get to this point.

 

[efeezy]

Scratch that.. I just used this and it works fine.

<?php if (is_single()) {
?>
<div style="width:160px; left:1145px;top:70px; position:absolute; height:600px; background-color:none;"> ////AD CODE HERE\\\\ </div>
<?php
}
?>

 

[laner]

glad you got it worked out.

 

[efeezy]

Thanks for your help.

 

[droplister]

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[efeezy]

You should bookmark this page as a reference because its got more conditions than you can shake a stick at:
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That's actually what I found to put together the code I ended up using. Good stuff there.