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Brittany Cerra
Brittany Cerra
7,424 Points
Posted by Brittany Cerra
Brittany Cerra
7,424 Points

Closing the body tag in the footer.

Why do we close the body tag in the footer file and not the index.php file?

2 Answers

Nora Demirjian
Nora Demirjian
7,160 Points

Because the footer is not only displayed in the index file but on other pages as well like pages that have posts or singe post pages. Hope that helped! Good luck!

Brittany Cerra
Brittany Cerra
7,424 Points
Brittany Cerra
Brittany Cerra
7,424 Points

That makes sense! Thank you.

Crisoforo Gaspar Hernández
Crisoforo Gaspar Hernández
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Crisoforo Gaspar Hernández
Crisoforo Gaspar Hernández
18,302 Points

Because all the files for example header.php footer.php are called by index.php so when you write the tag: <?php get_footer(); ?> you are calling all the code inside the file footer.php.

Brittany Cerra
Brittany Cerra
7,424 Points
Brittany Cerra
Brittany Cerra
7,424 Points

Thank you for the response! I get the includes, but I was confused as to why this closing tage wouldn't just be included in what seems like the lowest common denominator--the index.php. I forgot that there are pages that aren't drawn from the index file.