Editing on index.php is not affecting the webpage in wordpress

Question

I am editing my theme in wordpress and added a new div with class named "sidebar" but it is not updating on the website's homepage. The stylesheet is updating with the .sidebar class but not my index.php. I have inspect the element by chrome's inspector and i can't see the div with class name sidebar.

But in the file it is there. Is there any setting i have to do in wordpress?

Answer 1

you need to add that div tag in page.php instead of index.php