by a Thinker, Sailor, Blogger, Irreverent Guy from Madras

Why do Gadgets disappear or shift to bottom in Blogger?


Here is a funny problem which popped up today.  And it took me a couple of hours to understand why the problem appears - and Gadgets disappear or shift. 

The problem is that after the Windows 8 release post, all the Gadgets on the sidebars disappeared.  Actually they had been shifted to the bottom of the blog.  On the Main page, it gives the impression that they have disappeared - because there are 5 posts on the main page.

I’ll explain it with this post.  Normally, you can see all the Gadgets in the sidebar, as meant to.  But, here is the snapshot of the same post without the sidebar Gadgets and the inset showing the gadgets below the comments.

blogger_without_gadgets

The problem it seems is an unclosed <div> tag, though I don’t know how the blogger accepts it in the first place.  If you try to leave a tag unclosed the blogger in-built editor usually screams, flashes its heart out, till the correction is made.

Anyway the solution is to open up the blog editor, edit the particular article and look for unclosed div tag.  If you can’t spot any, switch once (or twice or thrice) between the “Compose” and “HTML'” buttons on the editor.  It seems to solve the issue.

BTW, I thought that editing a post on the Android phone with Blogger Apps created the issue in the first place.  But I just can’t seem to reproduce the bug again.

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