Wrap the genesis footer widgets and footer section by footer wrap.

Example:

[html]
<div class="footer-widgets"></div>
<footer class="site-footer" role="contentinfo" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/WPFooter"></div>
[/html]

Using the codes below, this will be the output look like.

[html]
<div class="footer-wrap">
<div class="footer-widgets"></div>
<footer class="site-footer" role="contentinfo" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/WPFooter"></div>
</div>
[/html]

[php]
add_action( ‘genesis_before_footer’, ‘footer_wrap_start’, 1 );
add_action( ‘genesis_after_footer’, ‘footer_wrap_end’ );
function footer_wrap_start(){
echo ‘<div id="footer-wrap">’;
}
function footer_wrap_end(){
echo ‘</div>’;
}
[/php]

Copy the codes and paste it into your function.php