Three Column Minima Lefty Stretch - Two Columns on the Right

This blog is all about adding columns to free blogger templates, and this post will help you adding a third column to Minima Lefty Stretch. This tutorial will help you make a three column Minima Lefty Stretch blog with the main column on the left and two sidebars on the right. If you want a 3 column Minima Lefty Stretch blogger with the main column in the middle and one sidebar on the each side, see the main post on three column minima lefty stretch.

If you want both your sidebars on the right, this post is for you. So without further adieu, let's get started. First, open up Blogger and go into your Dashboard, then click on the "Layout" tab. Then go into the "Edit HTML" tab.

You will see a bunch of gobbledygook and gobbledygook it shall remain - you don't need to know anything about it. Just scroll down until you see the "Outer-Wrapper" section, it is marked by the following: /* Outer Wrapper. Easy enough, but an even easier way to find it is use your brower's control F (CTRL+F) command. You can just type CTRL F and then type /* Outer-Wrapper into the dialog box and click "next".

/* Outer-Wrapper
-----------------------------------------------

Now, change the width of the "main-wrapper" from 67% to 52%, and the float from $endSide to $startSide. Note that the html code "$startSide" is case sensitive:

#main-wrapper {
margin-$endSide: 2%; <-------change to $startSide
width: 67%; <-------change to 52%
float: $endSide; <-------change to $startSide
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */

That piece of code should now look EXACTLY like this:

#main-wrapper {
margin-$startSide: 2%;
width: 52%;
float: $startSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */


Next, change the float of the "sidebar-wrapper" from $startSide to $endSide. Note that the html code "$endSide" is case sensitive:

#sidebar-wrapper {
margin-$startSide: 2%;
width: 20%;
float: $startSide;<-------change to $endSide
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */

So far so good. Now, take this new block of code (below, in red) and paste it exactly as it appears directly in the space just before the */ Headings section. It's helpful to use "CTRL C" to copy, and then "CTRL V" to paste, if you didn't already know that trick. Regardless of how you cut and paste, you must paste the code directly in that space before the */Headings section and do not accidentally delete any code from the "#sidebar-wrapper" code above, including the "}" character at the very end. To paraphrase Monty Python, every character is sacred!

#right-sidebar-wrapper {
margin-$startSide: 2%;
width: 20%;
float: $endSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

The new code block should look exactly like this:

#main-wrapper {
margin-$startSide: 2%;
width: 52%;
float: $startSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
#sidebar-wrapper {
margin-$endSide: 2%;
width: 20%;
float: $startSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}
#right-sidebar-wrapper {
margin-$endSide: 2%;
width: 20%;
float: $endSide;
display: inline; /* fix for doubling margin in IE */
word-wrap: break-word; /* fix for long text breaking sidebar float in IE */
overflow: hidden; /* fix for long non-text content breaking IE sidebar float */
}

At this point, believe it or not, there is only one more step. This particular step is hard only because you need to make sure you paste the additional code in the right spot, and this next spot can be a hard place to identify (CTRL+F helps here a lot).

Anyway, scroll down to the very end of the entire page. Several lines above the very end you will see the following:

<!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height-->

Now, immediately above the line that says <!-- spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height--> and below the end of the "main-wrapper" div section (be careful not to delete any of the code in that section), paste in the following code EXACTLY as it appears below:

<div id='right-sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='right-sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='Subscribe1' locked='false' title='Subscribe' type='Subscribe'/>
</b:section>
</div>

Note: this will also insert the RSS feed widget into your new sidebar, but you can customize that however you'd like after you finish adding the new column. For now, there's no need to worry about it. So, after you do that, the newly modified section should now look like this:

<div id='main-wrapper'>
<b:section class='main' id='main' showaddelement='no'>
<b:widget id='Blog1' locked='true' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='false' title='Blog Archive' type='BlogArchive'/>
<b:widget id='BloggerButton1' locked='false' title='' type='BloggerButton'/>
<b:section>
</div>

<div id='right-sidebar-wrapper'>
<b:section class='sidebar' id='right-sidebar' preferred='yes'>
<b:widget id='Subscribe1' locked='false' title='Subscribe' type='Subscribe'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<--spacer for skins that want sidebar and main to be the same height-->

And you are a now master Minima Lefty Stretch coder, because you're done! Hit preview to see your new 3 column Minima Lefty Stretch layout, and then save the template. Best of luck with your blogging. I hope your new 3 column Minima Lefty Stretch template helps make your blogging even more fun and enjoyable!

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