By Waven on

im using a theme which has been specified as 980px wide. The left side bar was 220px wide. I had no use for the left side bar, even though I had no blocks in it there was still an area of 220 px on the left of my page where the blocks would have been.

So what I did was made my main content area 980px to match the width of the page. Removing the left side bar completely.

I still have the left sidebar on my site but I have no blocks in it so it doesnt show up, But if i do put blocks in it, the left sidebar gets displayed above my main content area but only 220px wide as specified.

But now i need to use this left sidebar as it orignially was, but only on some of my pages, and the rest I want the main content to be the full width of the page.

So what im askng is how do I get this left region to show up on the left when theres blocks in it. But doesnt show at all when there isnt any blocks in.

Thanks

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pbarnett commented

For the sidebar to only show when it has content, you want something like

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

This is for a Zen subtheme; in your theme $left might be called $sidebar_left

Pete.