CSS – Why is Border not Working?

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I am currently coding a WordPress website. I have a sidebar and the main body for my blog posts. The sidebar currently has the following properties: 

.nav{
width:25%;
height: 100%;
background: #FFF;
display:block;
float:left;
position:relative;
border-right:thin solid #C8C8C8;
}

and the main body for blog posts:

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body {
font-family: Myriad Pro, Tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:16px;
margin-left:20%;
margin-right:20%;
}

.post {
padding-left:10px;  
border-left:thin solid #000000;
}

I am currently trying to add padding-left to .post so that there is a gap between the right border of the sidebar and the blog posts. However, this is not working (a gap is not created) for some reason. Nor is border-left (there is no border created; I tried removing the border-right property on the sidebar).

This is currently the code for index.php 

   <div id="blog">
    <?php if(have_posts()) : ?><?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div class = "sidebar">    
        <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    </div>
    <div class="post">
    <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

        <div class="entry">
            <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
            <?php the_content(); ?>

            <p class="postmetadata">
            <?php _e('Filed under:'); ?> <?php the_category(', ') ?> <?php _e('by'); ?> <?php  the_author(); ?><br />
            <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>
            </p>

        </div>
    </div>

How do I make padding-left and border-left work for the main blog posts?

Thanks!

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  1. Padding is applied within the element, so the border is on the other side of the padding. What you need is margin, which is applied outside of the element:

    .post {
    margin-left:10px;  
    border-left:thin solid #000000;
}

    Here is an article explaining padding and margin in more detail.

  2. This sounds like a conflict between the default WordPress CSS and your themes CSS file(s). A quick hack is to add !important to the end of the CSS declarations as follows: 

    .post {
  padding-left: 10px !important;  
  border-left: thin solid #000000 !important;
}

    A long-term solution is to examine what CSS files are loaded (and in what order) and what selectors are being used. Excellent resource: http://codex.wordpress.org/CSS_Troubleshooting