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Posted by tzvio on September 23, 2010 at 9:49am

Hi, what is the meaning of the sections div's that appear in page.tpl.php and how should i use them?

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div sections

Posted by creativitea on September 23, 2010 at 9:54am
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I believe they help clear floated elements? I have used them in the past for positioning tweaks in my themes.

Should i use them?

Posted by tzvio on September 23, 2010 at 10:00am
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is it recommended to keep the sections and build the inner divs inside them?

I believe it's just a means

Posted by jerseycheese on September 23, 2010 at 1:06pm
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I believe it's just a means of logically organizing the "sections" of your page into bigger pieces and giving you safe place to add padding/margins to areas of your page. All padding and margins should, I think, be done to the .sections rather than their parent divs, such as #header and #footer, to avoid issues that may arise from any layout/positioning CSS you have in your layout.css file for those divs.

In recent updates to the theme, these .section divs have replaced the old #whatever-inner divs. #whatever-inner made less sense from a naming standpoint, semantically, than .section does.

thanks!

Posted by tzvio on September 23, 2010 at 6:01pm
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thanks!

Thanks Jersey

Posted by KennyVanLent on September 24, 2010 at 4:00pm
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Will add padding and margins only to .section from now on.