i am having trouble getting my left column to work. the middle and right work fine but the left i cant do anything with. its there but unusable. please help fix this code please.

/* Sidebar Content
----------------------------------------------- */
.sidebar {
color: $sidebartextcolor;
line-height: 1.5em;
}

.sidebar ul {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 0;
padding:0 0 0;
}
.sidebar li {
margin:0;
padding-top:0;
padding-$endSide:0;
padding-bottom:.25em;
padding-$startSide:15px;
text-indent:-15px;
line-height:1.5em;
}

.sidebar .widget, .main .widget {
border-bottom:1px dotted $bordercolor;
margin:0 0 1.5em;
padding:0 0 1.5em;
}

.main .Blog {
border-bottom-width: 0;
}

/* Profile
----------------------------------------------- */


i have error messages it gives me. contact me if you need them too. thanks

Hi
I'm not clear just what is going on here.
This looks like your CSS.
How do those $ php variables get replaced by actual values?

Unless this section is within a php section I suspect that those values are getting used exactly how they look and that will throw errors.

Try using firefox and the developers toolbar to view and change your css, that will let you see it and change it.

There are some guidelines for this procedure here

newtojoomla.com/pages/visual/dev_toolbar_css/index.htm

code is fine i think their is some issue on style or css you write.. run this coding in google chrome