Secondary div nesting in primary div

  • I’m running the Twenty Eleven theme, and am having trouble with the “sidebar template”. On the first few pages I created, it worked fine. But now whenever I create a new page using this template, the “div id=secondary” is nesting inside “div id=primary”. I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to do this, as my first few (correct) pages don’t. The footer is in the wrong place too…

    This is how I understand it should look (this is how my correct pages work):

    <head>
<body>
     <page>
          <header>
          <main>
          <secondary>
     <footer>

    This is how my incorrect pages look:

    <head>
<body>
     <page>
          <header>
          <main>
               <primary>
                    <content>
                    <secondary>
               <footer>

    Any idea as to why? To see a correct page you can look at “https://www.smithbrotherssteakhouse.com&#8221;. To see an incorrect page that I want to fix, go to “https://www.smithbrotherssteakhouse.com/1234test/&#8221;. Any help would be great.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Validate your webpage and look for errors that say unclosed something element, these are likely to be the cause.

    Thread Starter MitchGusdal

    (@mitchgusdal)

    Thanks.. I followed your link and am going through all the problems it found. I haven’t found the problem yet, but I’m curious as to why my initial pages aren’t affected, but only the pages I make now. They’re the same theme and same template, so why would some pages work but not others?

    Maybe I can avoid making this mistake again

    Thread Starter MitchGusdal

    (@mitchgusdal)

    I still can’t find the problem. It mentions “End tag for ‘body’ seen, but there were unclosed elements” and “Unclosed element div for ‘page’ id” but I can’t figure out how to fix them. Sorry I’m not very coding-savvy… I’m a designer trying to build a website!

    Thread Starter MitchGusdal

    (@mitchgusdal)

    Never mind, it’s been fixed!

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