Title: Using get_header or get_footer causes gap between #wrapper and body Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Using get_header or get_footer causes gap between #wrapper and body * Resolved [dguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dguyen/) * (@dguyen) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/) * When creating my template if I include: **get_header or get_footer** I get a gap between my #wrapper and the top and bottom of the body page. If I remove the tags and just include the code all within one template file, the problem goes away…can someone please help? * I apologize but my build is local and I don’t have a link to it. * I remember reading somewhere about an issue with Multisite -which I may have to break one of my divs from the header.php file into the template.php file? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [Person](https://wordpress.org/support/users/person/) * (@person) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595163) * As far as I know, get_header and get_footer simply include the header.php and footer.php files, so there’s no reason why there should be an extra gap unless you’re adding extra code that you didn’t when you put everything in one file. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595166) * This shouldn’t have an issue with multisite at all. * Thread Starter [dguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dguyen/) * (@dguyen) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595314) * Thank you so much for the replies…I’ve racked my brain for another hour or so… can’t figure it out. Here is the entire page.php template file below. All works fine when the browser calls this file…but if I cut out everything #main div and above and place it in the header.php file and cut everything #footer and below into footer.php (whilst making my get_header and get_footer calls) I get a gap. No errors. * I did notice nothing wrong when viewing the source, but inside Firebug, there are scripts/links from showing up inside the tag… which Firebug measures 14px in height… * ``` > <?php wp_title('«', true, 'right'); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?> >
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``` * I must be completely dense? When comparing Firebug with the single page.php file vs. page.php (with get_header/get_footer) why are the link links showing inside the tags? * Thread Starter [dguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dguyen/) * (@dguyen) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595365) * Alright, after some more deduction… I assume my extra padding between my `#wrapper` and the body is from the unusual placement of my `` scripts/links inside of the `` tags just before `#wrapper`. (ie. stylesheet, jQuery script, EditURI, WLWmanifest -which Firebug says these links are 0x14px in size) * So the question is… Why are my `` links/scripts finding their way inside the tags when I use the `get_header` and `get_footer` calls? * … is someone going to tell me how blatantly blind I’m being? What am I missing? * Thread Starter [dguyen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dguyen/) * (@dguyen) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595441) * I decided to copy and paste my code work into a new text document and for some reason everything is fine. Maybe there was an issue with my original document… ASCII, UTF-8, etc…? * [Andy Brudtkuhl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abrudtkuhl/) * (@abrudtkuhl) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595495) * I am having this same issue however copy and paste into a new document didnt work for m * [apparentlyrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apparentlyrich/) * (@apparentlyrich) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595496) * abrudtkuhl, I’m having the same issue also. Not really sure what’s wrong with the code as before I upgraded the the Nightly’s everything was working pretty well with no gap. Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Using get_header or get_footer causes gap between #wrapper and body’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [get_footer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get_footer/) * [get_header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/get_header/) * [template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 7 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [apparentlyrich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apparentlyrich/) * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using/#post-1595496) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics