Genesis ignores sidebar classes?

[DanielJLewis]

I'm registering widgets with genesis_register_sidebar using the WordPress syntax, including "class":

genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id' => 'top-feature-full',
	'name' => 'Top Feature Full Width',
	'description' => 'This is the Top Feature Full Width section',
	'class' => 'testclass'
) );

But the class is completely ignored when the widget area is placed in my theme with genesis_widget_area( 'top-feature-full' );.

The widget shows just fine, but the class is never carried over. This is really important for me. I even tried using WordPress's dynamic_sidebar with register_sidebar, but the class was still nowhere in the HTML.

For development, this means I have to write:

<?php if ( is_active_sidebar('top-feature-full') ) { ?>
	<div class="testclass">
		<?php genesis_widget_area( 'top-feature-full' ); ?>
	</div>
<?php }

But if the class key worked, I could condense the above into:

<?php genesis_widget_area( 'top-feature-full' ); ?>

I don't know whether this is a WordPress problem or a Genesis problem, but I would appreciate your help.

[Sridhar Katakam]

There are two ways from what I can see.

1) Use the WP's register_sidebar instead of Genesis specific genesis_register_sidebar.

Set your class in the value of 'before_widget'.

Ex.:

register_sidebar(array(
  'name' => __( 'Right Hand Sidebar' ),
  'id' => 'right-sidebar',
  'description' => __( 'Widgets in this area will be shown on the right-hand side.' ),
  'before_widget' => '<div class="testclass widget-area">',
  'after_widget'  => '</div>',
  'before_title' => '<h4>',
  'after_title' => '</h4>'
));

to display the content of above sidebar, you would use:

dynamic_sidebar( 'right-sidebar' );

2) Register your sidebar using genesis_register_sidebar and add markup like so:

genesis_widget_area( 'right-sidebar', array(
			'before'=> '<div class="testclass widget-area">',
			'after'	=> '</div>',
		) );

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[DanielJLewis]

Thanks for the reply, but neither of those suggestions would work. As I said, I already tried the WordPress methods over the Genesis methods. Same result.

"before_widget" won't work because that adds the code around each widget, when I want the whole widget area with the class.

StudioPress responded to a support ticket about this saying I could use "before," but that means adding extra HTML markup.

Why can't I just use the built-in "class" to add that class to the existing widget area markup?

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