What word defines a category suited for both header and footer?

So there I was, trying to ask a question (now on SO) on Webmaster.SE partly involving a 'header' and a 'footer'. One part of my code defines shared aspects of both the header and the footer.

Anyway to cut a long story short, I became somewhat stuck as to what I wanted to name the class they share. All I could come up with was Xer, HeaderFooter and sandwich. Similar word groups like 'suffix' and 'prefix' give me the same issue, coming up with Xfix which is just awful nomenclature!

What categorically describes both headers and footers?

Commentary: I am *not* concerned about the web design/coding aspect of this at all. 
I could easily just use:
div.CantThinkOfName 

for my particular case if that were the issue. I'm referring to header/footer as it 
applies to any document or setting in the English language.

Final Results: Best coinage is Running Marginals with runner-up, Horizontal Ribbons. I've chosen Running Sections as the correct answer as this phrase is already in use while awarding bounty to Marginals (which eventually became running marginals) as this is a more relate-able terminology.

Solution 1:

From publication: Running head and footer.

Running sections?

Edit So this would become div.Running or equivalent.

Solution 2:

This is a somewhat late answer. Not because I'm suddenly interested in the bounty, but because I assumed someone else would know the 'correct' answer.

It's now become clear there isn't currently any single term with established significance that specifically means 'headers and footers', so we're looking for a new coinage or specialised use of existing words.

I therefore propose marginals.

In principle headers/footers might be vertical marginals, as opposed to horizontal marginals on the sides of the main text. In practice you'd rarely need to reference the horizontal type, because we don't usually put 'repeating' text there in print (that's where the reader pencils in his own notes).

We could replace headers with top marginals, and footers with bottom marginals. So we'd end up with one less specialised term to remember, rather than one more.

Solution 3:

The guys and girls at Microsoft couldn't think of a single good unambiguous name either, so they settled on Header & Footer

MS Word Header and Footer

Neither, apparently, could the folks at Corel Write

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While over at Google they didn't bother grouping them at all (the red circle is mine)

Google Docs didn't bother grouping them

Neither did the Open Office team

Open office did't bother either

Solution 4:

There is no commonly used name regrouping both footers and headers, so the question you have to ask yourself is “do I want to create a new term, or will this new terminology put off users?”

If you want to create a word for that, I would suggest:

banners: the obvious drawback is that it's already taken, at least in the context of a webpage
ribbons: emphasizing that those are horizontal blocks of text
if you talk about all elements which adorn the page without being the core of the page itself, you could go with adornments, ornaments, etc.
the most generic term I can think of would be blocks, as in blocks of text, which you can qualify to your heart’s desire: fixed blocks, title blocks, etc.

But no solution seems perfect.

Solution 5:

To be able to find a word for this, we need to look at what headers and footers have in common. What characterizes headers and footers? Well, they are both text segments located in either the top edge or the bottom edge of a document. Maybe something like "edge text" or "margin text"?