Title: XHTML/CSS – Footer Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# XHTML/CSS – Footer Problems

 *  Resolved [Webmeba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmeba/)
 * (@webmeba)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/)
 * WP ver.: 2.2
    Link to blog: webmeba.com
 * I’m still toying around with the footer, but I still wanted to ask you guys (
   and girls) a question.
 * The code of my footer.php is this…
 *     ```
       <div id="footer">
       Powered by <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>. Theme by Andrej Zukov Gregoric
       <?php wp_footer(); ?></div>
       </div>
   
       </div>
   
       </div>
   
       </body>
       </html>
       ```
   
 * When I try to style #footer using CSS weird things happen… Using the Web Developer
   FF extension try to apply a background colour to the footer. Half of the screen
   turns in to that colour!
 * Help?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648410)
 * My guess is those closing div tags are not on the proper order… or it is a flaw
   in the general structure of the site. With the Dev Toolbar I tried to outline
   the elements and the footer starts somewhere at the top of the page.
 *  Thread Starter [Webmeba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmeba/)
 * (@webmeba)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648414)
 * Yeah, I tried moving the footer between the various </div>’s. I also went through
   all of my .php’s about three times, and I could not spot an rouge <div> or </
   div>.
 * The problem still remains though? There is no function calling for a footer anywhere
   in the loop, or in the header…
 * help again ?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648417)
 * You have an unclosed div somewhere:
    [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webmeba.com%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webmeba.com%2F)
 *  Thread Starter [Webmeba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmeba/)
 * (@webmeba)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648420)
 * Still no luck…
 * Maybe if you could glance at my index.php
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       <div id="container">
       <div id="containery">
       <div id="content">
   
       <?php if(have_posts()) : ?>
   
       <?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <div class="post <?php post_sticky_status(); ?>">
       	<div class="post-header <?php post_sticky_status(); ?>">
       		<div class="entry-date">Written on <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?> by <?php the_author(); ?></div>
   
       		<br></br><br></br><div class="entry-title"><h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2></div>
       		<div class="entry-category"><img src="http://webmeba.com/wp-content/themes/Webmeba2/images/tag.png" alt="tag icon"></img> <?php the_category(',') ?></div>
       		<div class="entry-comment"><img src="http://webmeba.com/wp-content/themes/Webmeba2/images/comment.png" alt="Add a comment!"></img> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments', '1 Comment', '% Comments'); ?></div>
   
       	</div>
       	<div class="post1 <?php post_sticky_status(); ?>">
   
       			<div class="entry-content <?php post_sticky_status(); ?>"><?php the_content(); ?></div>
   
       	</div>
   
       <?php if ($count==0) { ?>
   
       <?php } ?>
   
       <?php $count = $count + 1; ?>
   
       </div>
       <?php endwhile; ?>
   
       <div class="navigation"><?php posts_nav_link(); ?></div>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       </div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       </div>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648421)
 * Sorry, nobody can really read code here. When it is necessary paste code to [http://wordpress.pastebin.ca](http://wordpress.pastebin.ca)
 * Unless you go through all your code, beginning from the opening body and comment
   every div (where it starts and where it ends) – you will never figure out. Although
   that validation page might help!
 *  Thread Starter [Webmeba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmeba/)
 * (@webmeba)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648424)
 * Thanks for that, I’ll go through the commenting process tomorrow since it’s getting
   late. I pasted all my code at pastebin [http://pastebin.ca/761614](http://pastebin.ca/761614)
 * But as of today, I’d still like to know how is it even possible that div id=”
   footer” can be interfering with the whole page?
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xhtmlcss-footer-problems/#post-648449)
 * Fix your code so it validates. Your problems will go away.

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