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Posted by chooiyenlim
chooiyenlim
10,219 Points

Alternative to repeating <div class="col-md-4"> three times for each widget in front-page.php

Instead of repeating <div class="col-md-4"> three times for each widget in front-page.php, was there a specific reason as to why @Zac didn't change the div class in the register_sidebar parameter in functions.php?

Original:

'before_widget' => '<div class="widget">'

Alternative:

'before_widget' => '<div class="col-md-4">'

I tried looking up the .widget class in the CSS but couldn't find any so I don't think the .widget class would have had any effect anyway.

chooiyenlim
chooiyenlim
10,219 Points

Okay, I just realised why Zac did not set the 'before_widget' parameter to set the div class as "col-md-4" as the same register_sidebar function would be used later on to create other widgets such as the actual sidebar... I think it would have helped if he had explained more on why he chose certain values/parameters when registering functions or other similar situations.