Title: Can’t get Wrapper border
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Can’t get Wrapper border

 *  Resolved [j-mar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-mar/)
 * (@j-mar)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/)
 * I’m trying to get a border to go around my content using the Wrapper div. Problem
   is, it seems like something is preventing the wrapper from enclosing all of the
   content. If you look here – [http://theme.buffettworld.com](http://theme.buffettworld.com)
   you’ll see that the gray border spans the top and then just a couple pixels down
   on the sides and then stops.
 * Help please 🙂 . I’m guessing it’s something fairly simple. I’m not using any
   theme, I built this one from scratch following a tutorial.
 * Thanks

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 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290679)
 * You closed the `#wrapper div` just before the `#featured div`. You should take
   that closing div and move it to just before closing `</body>`
 * In order to prevent closing divs too early, it would be good to indent HTML accordingly
   so you could see the structure better.
 *  Thread Starter [j-mar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-mar/)
 * (@j-mar)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290836)
 * Hmm, I’m still not seeing that.
 * Here’s what the end of my header file looks like:
 *     ```
       <div id="wrapper">
   
           <div id="header">
   
              <div id="mast">
   
              </div>
   
       <?php if (function_exists('pixopoint_menu')) {pixopoint_menu();}; ?>
   
         </div>
       ```
   
 * And then here’s start of index.php
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <div id="featured">
       	<ul class="ui-tabs-nav">
       	    <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item ui-tabs-selected" id="nav-fragment-1"><a href="#fragment-1"><img src="images/fc01.gif" alt="" /><span>New Album: Buffet Hotel Available For Pre-Order</span></a></li>
       	    <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item" id="nav-fragment-2"><a href="#fragment-2"><img src="images/fc02.gif" alt="" /><span>Summerzcool Tour Ends in New York</span></a></li>
       	    <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item" id="nav-fragment-3"><a href="#fragment-3"><img src="images/fc03.gif" alt="" /><span>Bill Clinton Visits Margaritaville</span></a></li>
       	    <li class="ui-tabs-nav-item" id="nav-fragment-4"><a href="#fragment-4"><img src="images/fc04.gif" alt="" /><span>Buffett Sings National Anthem</span></a></li>
       	</ul>
       	<!-- First Content -->
       	<div id="fragment-1" class="ui-tabs-panel" style="">
       		<img src="images/fc01.jpg" alt="" />
       		<div class="info">
       <h2><a href="#">New Album: Buffet Hotel</a></h2>
       		<p>The new Jimmy Buffett album "Buffet Hotel" is available for pre-order from Amazon.com... <a href="#"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
   
       		</div>
       	</div>
       	<!-- Second Content -->
       ```
   
 * So I’m not seeing where the wrapper got closed. What am I missing?
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290840)
 * If you’re creating your theme from scratch or modifying another theme, you should
   get the Firebug add-on for Mozilla Firefox browser. That’s how I saw that the
   wrapper div closed before the feature section earlier the easy way.
 * In addition, you should use W3C’s validation tool where I can see you have 31
   validation errors caused by some invalid markups.
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290841)
 * – edit duplicate
 *  Thread Starter [j-mar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-mar/)
 * (@j-mar)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290843)
 * Thanks for taking the time to help.
 * All of those errors were related to some code I put in a Text widget. Removed
   that and all the errors went away.
 * I’m still not sure how to get the wrapper border. Installed Firebug, neat tool.
   I see how it’s showing Wrapper just the small part at top. But I don’t see the
   wrapper closing up until after the footer. I guess I’m missing it.
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290845)
 * You’re getting the hang of it now … the closing wrapper div was placed after 
   the footer. Also, as an aside, you might want to add the declaration
    `text-align:
   left` to your #box and #sidebar divs.
 *  Thread Starter [j-mar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-mar/)
 * (@j-mar)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290847)
 * I’m slowly getting it. Built webpages with HTML for a long time but just now 
   trying to grasp CSS.
 * So basically the wrapper div is still getting turned off somewhere too early?
   I keep trying and trying and can’t find the problem.
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290885)
 * Per my post 16 hours ago, you have the wrapper div closed after the closing div
   of the footer. So wrapper div is closed, your HTML validates, so you’re good 
   to go by adding the final touches like styles in your theme’s style.css
 *  Thread Starter [j-mar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/j-mar/)
 * (@j-mar)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-get-wrapper-border/#post-1290893)
 * Had a buddy get me fixed up. Had to do with floats that didn’t need to be there
   and were canceling things out.

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