How To Add 4 Columns to your Footer Section

Posted by Lasantha Bandara on May 20th, 2009 File Under : background, change template, footer, html2 Comments

1.Log in to your dashboard--> layout- -> Edit HTML

2.Scroll down to where you see this:

<b:section class='footer' id='footer'/>

Look at the picture below.

3.Now Replace above Line with below code.

<div id='footer-column-container'>
<div id='footer1' style='width: 225px; float: left; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-1' preferred='yes' style='float:left;'>
<b:widget id='Text1' locked='false' title='About B-G' type='Text'/>

</b:section>
</div>
<div id='footer2' style='width: 225px; float: left; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-2' preferred='yes' style='float:left;'>
<b:widget id='Text4' locked='false' title='About Author' type='Text'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='footer3' style='width: 225px; float: right; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-3' preferred='yes' style='float:right;'>
<b:widget id='Text3' locked='false' title='Subscribe in Reader' type='Text'/>
</b:section>
</div>

<div id='footer4' style='width: 225px; float: right; margin:0; '>
<b:section class='footer-column' id='footer-column-4' preferred='yes' style='float:right;'>
<b:widget id='Text2' locked='false' title='Access B-G on Go' type='Text'/>
</b:section>
</div>
<div style='clear:both;'/>
</div>

4.Now again scroll down to where you see this:

]]></b:skin>

5.Now add below code before the  ]]></b:skin>

#footer-column-container { border: .3px dotted #cccccc;}

.footer-column { margin: 0 10px 0 10px; padding:5px;
color: #666666; line-height: 1.5em; font-size:12px;}

.footer-column h2 {
padding-bottom:.15em; text-align:center;
font:"normal normal 80% 'Comic Sans MS','Lucida Sans Unicode','Trebuchet MS',Sans-serif";
color:#333333;
line-height:1em; letter-spacing:.1em;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;}

.footer-column ul { list-style:none; margin:0 0 0; padding:0 0 0;}

.footer-column ul li {
background: url(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp296/rnbutpur/bullet-1.gif) no-repeat;
margin:0 0 0; padding-left: 16px;
padding-bottom: 0.5em; line-height:1.2em;}

.footer-column .widget {margin:0 0 .5em; padding:0 0 1em;}

6.Now save your template and you are done.

File Under : background, change template, footer, html

2 Responses to “How To Add 4 Columns to your Footer Section”

  1. Insert Book Title says:
    May 4, 2010 at 11:45 am

    Thank you!

    Reply
  2. singachu says:
    January 31, 2013 at 5:45 pm

    Nice, finally I can split my blogger footer into 3 columns without change the entiry template, since I'm lazy to write again all of the modification I already made

    Great !

    regards,
    singachu

    Reply

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