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Tom Lawrence
8,685 PointsWhy did you copy the HTML into footer.php starting with a closing DIV tag?
In this vid when he took the code from index.php for the footer and put it into footer.php he copied out the HTML starting from the closing DIV of a DIV still within the index.php page.
Why?
Thanks
4 Answers
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherTom;
Look in the header.php file. Is there an opening <div> there that isn't closed?
Ken
Tom Lawrence
8,685 PointsYes <div id="content">, so the footer I assume is closing it?
So it seems you are opening the main content DIV in header, closing it in the footer so anything within index.php remaining will always be within the the DIV with the ID Content?
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherTom;
Yup, sounds like you got it. Pretty slick eh? Now when you are editing/debugging the content pages for your site you don't have errant <div> tags floating around and everything winds up being within the Content ID so CSS formatting become much easier.
Ken
Tom Lawrence
8,685 Pointsoh great thanks for your help.
Ill remember to do this when I convert a website I have been doing for college using HTML/CSS into a PHP driven site.