The "closure" region looks to be functionally identical to the "footer" region.

I'm curious to know what the thinking is behind the closure region.

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JohnAlbin’s picture

Title: What's up with the "closure" region? » Make the closure region more useful
Category: support » feature

The original idea was that if you have a graphic design style applied to the #footer, you can add a block below that styling by putting it in the closure region.

FYI, the closure region was something that “came along for the ride” from the transition from my old internal base theme to the Zen theme. But its positioning is flawed, IMO.

In D6, I have moved the closure region outside the #page div (the footer region is still inside #page). So this means #closure-blocks is more useful.

Example: you want a styled box around your content.

#page-inner { background-image: url(box-top.png); }
#page { background-image: url(box-sides-repeat.png; }
#footer { background-image: url(box-bottom.png); }

And now, with the new #closure-blocks position in D6, the closure region is outside that box.

Make sense? Comments?

JohnAlbin’s picture

Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)
jjeff’s picture

Seems good to me. The closure region feels to be a bit of an edge use-case. But what they hey, life is too short for nitpicking! :-)

JohnAlbin’s picture

Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Fixed
Anonymous’s picture

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.