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Posted by Paul Barron
Paul Barron
6,595 Points

inner and outer wrappers

Why? I've seen a few websites that have two containers, one inside the other. What for?

notf0und
notf0und
11,940 Points

Are you talking about divs inside divs?

3 Answers

shahardekel
shahardekel
20,306 Points

There can be many reasons. Sometimes, when building a website as part of a CSS framework, like twitter bootstrap, you have to follow specific guidelines in order for your site not to break. Other reasons may be design (outer container can include a background color or image), padding between the two, and other considerations.

Thai Huynh
Thai Huynh
15,293 Points
Thai Huynh
Thai Huynh
15,293 Points

One container me be the "main" one and the nested or child container me be to "contain" or restrict other elements lets say to a different specific width. Hope this helps.

Paul Barron
Paul Barron
6,595 Points
Paul Barron
Paul Barron
6,595 Points

I learned this last night. They both have purposes? One can hold the content, the other can hold background images? I guess I didn't get back to basics. They're called containers, because they CONTAIN elements.