Title: div id = posts
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# div id = posts

 *  [greg2008](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greg2008/)
 * (@greg2008)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/)
 * I am using the Corporate theme, and cannot for the life of me find the CSS that
   relates to the `id="posts"`.
 * I have found the post class – `.post{}`
    But am looking for where the `#posts{}`
   is defined.
 * I have searched this site and Google and the theme owners site, but could not
   find anything relating to it, obviously searching with keyword “posts” only brings
   unrelated results in WP and Google.
 * Is this CSS ID something to do with the spans? If so, is there a doc on it? Obviously
   searching for “spans” only returns unrelated results too.
 * It doesn’t even tell me where it comes from in FF Firebug.
 * Cheers.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/#post-1030786)
 * Perhaps the CSS simply doesn’t declare any style for #posts.
 *  [t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os/)
 * (@t31os)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/#post-1030804)
 * If you’re referring to…
 * #post-1
    #post-2
 * and so on…
 * You’ll need to look in your template files for something along the lines of…
 * `<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">`
 * Notice the id= part…
 * Is this what you refer to?
 *  Thread Starter [greg2008](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greg2008/)
 * (@greg2008)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/#post-1030888)
 * It’s actually “postS” not “post”, but yes I found the code you are referring 
   to:
    `<div class="post" id="posts-<?php the_ID(); ?>">`
 * But in some template files I have there’s also a direct use of the ID without
   the PHP:
    `<div id="posts" class="span-16 prepend-1 append-1">`
 * Is this simply the Corporate theme using an ID that doesn’t exist? If so, as 
   it’s the theme’s template files calling the theme’s CSS I would have thought 
   that to be bad.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/#post-1030890)
 * If you checked through all of the theme’s CSS files and you can’t find any reference
   to #posts, then it does look like the theme’s CSS simply doesn’t include any 
   styling that’s specific aimed at #posts.
 * I don’t think that makes Corporate a bad theme. I’ve written a few themes for
   distribution and I’ve sometimes included additional hooks that I’ve not styled
   but are there for users to attach additional style to, if they so wish.
 * Try adding your own CSS for #posts. If it doesn’t work as you expected, use Firebug
   to help you determine if you missed a #posts declaration somewhere.
 *  Thread Starter [greg2008](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greg2008/)
 * (@greg2008)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/#post-1030903)
 * Thanks.
 * Using firebug to see the DIV, the only thing it does is offer a container around
   the collective posts, with of course some padding with the append/prepend.
 * I don’t like the idea of having unused code, but I do understand providing unused
   hooks could be helpful to some people within a publicly used CMS.
 * As with any code, I prefer to know a bit more about it before messing with it.
   Especially in complex setups like WordPress where code is called and defined 
   from various places.
    But as I cannot find CSS for it and no-one has stated it’s
   an integral part of the code I might just rip it out altogether.
 * Cheers

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 * Last reply from: [greg2008](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greg2008/)
 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-id-posts/#post-1030903)
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