title: Shiny - Position wellPanels Vertically
body: <p>I am trying to position well panels along the left side of a plot that is also in a well panel.  However, the code I have now produces a page as pictured below.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ByT8G.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ByT8G.png" alt="Page Screenshot"></a></p>
  
  <p>I know adding an offset next to the column command (ex: column(2, offset = 2, ...)) is a horizontal positioning of the wellPanel, but I need to change the wellPanel's position vertically so there isn't that white space gap on the page.  My sample code is below.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#Check packages to use in library
  {
    library('shiny') #allows for the shiny app to be used
    library('magrittr')
    library('dplyr')
  }
  
  #Data
  
  ID_no &lt;- 123
  Data_val &lt;- sample(0:100, 25)
  employee_name &lt;- as.character("Employee1")
  date &lt;- Sys.Date()
  ID_1 &lt;-data.frame(ID_no, Data_val, employee_name, date)
  
  ID_no &lt;- 456
  Data_val &lt;- sample(0:100, 25)
  employee_name &lt;- as.character("Employee2")
  date &lt;- Sys.Date()-10
  ID_2 &lt;-data.frame(ID_no, Data_val, employee_name, date)
  
  data &lt;-rbind(ID_1, ID_2)
  IDchoices &lt;- as.character(unique(data$ID_no))
  
  # UI
  
  ui &lt;- fluidPage(
   fluidRow(
      column(2,
             wellPanel(
               selectInput(inputId = "ID", label="Select ID:", choices = IDchoices, selected = "1", multiple = FALSE, selectize = TRUE)
            )),
     column(10,
            wellPanel(plotOutput("plot1")
            )),
     column(2,
             wellPanel(
               span(h5(strong("Employee:")), h5(textOutput("Staff_name"))),
              span(h5(strong("Date:")),h5(textOutput("Date"))))
     )
   )
  )
  
  #SERVER
  
  server &lt;- function(input, output, session)
  {
  
  }
  
  #Run the Shiny App to Display Webpage
  
  shinyApp(ui=ui, server=server)
  </code></pre>