Automattic/_s — pull request #119 by mpeshev (2012-12-07 21:14:25+00:00)
Title: Renaming the wrapper div ID from 'page' to 'wrapper'

This is an open discussion, but I have semantic proposal for the wrapper div. Labeling it 'page' is ambiguous during both development and debugging as it implies that all views are page views. Since 'Page' is a term in the WordPress world, this might be a misinterpretation of a given scenario.

Historically wise, both twentyeleven and twentyten use this approach. The result is a body with class 'single' and some post-related classes and right below it a 'page' ID.

![](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/328189/1017/e8489152-40b2-11e2-9a1b-d7374258b74b.png)

Whilst this is true, it certainly affects the process of debugging or even mistyping #page for .page somewhere in between. Using #container, #box or #wrapper is more general and imaginable, and don't forget that it was the preferred term for twentyten too ( http://themes.svn.wordpress.org/twentyten/1.5/header.php )