Use CSS to move a WordPress widget into different area - html

Question

I've got a site which is about to hit a traffic milestone. As we countdown to our millionth visitor, I thought it would be fun to move my stats widget from the right sidebar, and nest it in the corner of my site header element.
So far, I've managed to use this CSS to move the Widget out of the side menu... but I'm really struggling to figure out how to put this element into another div.
.bottomright {
position: absolute;
bottom: 8px;
right: 16px;
font-size: 18px;
}
This popped the widget out of the sidebar, and made it hover always in the corner. Neat...
My goal though, is to move that widget into this spot
Following this guide from the W3 Schools page, I've tried to nest the widget into the div I want it to go inside of (which is called header.site-header)
Here's the element I want it to go inside:
If I set it's position absolute and fiddle with sizing, I can shove it where I want it to go, but this doesn't look good for tablets or mobiles.
#blog-stats-2 {
position: absolute;
top: 75px;
right:5px;
width: 300px;
border: 3px solid #73AD21;
z-index:5;
}
Is there any keyword I'm missing to nest this in the corner of the site-header div?

Answer 1

You'll need to move your hit counter into the header HTML first before using position: absolute; otherwise it simply won't work. Try something like this.
You'll need to work this into your HTML code.
<header class="site-header">
<div id="blog-stats-2">
<!-- code here -->
</div>
</header>
Then your CSS like this.
header.site-header {
position: relative;
}
#blog-stats-2 {
position: absolute;
right: 20px;
bottom: 20px;
z-index: 123;
}
What that does is moves your hit counter into the header section and positions it absolutely to the bottom right of the header. Using position: relative; on a parent container and position: absolute; on a child element will make sure the top, right, bottom and left attributes are relative to the parents location all the time.
For mobile you'll need to change this further using media queries to make sure it sits inside the header nicely.
#media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
#blog-stats-2 {
left: 10px;
right: auto;
bottom: 10px;
}
}