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SharePoint 2013 Design Manager Converted Master Page & Focus on Content

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Lets suppose a designer creates the design concepts first in html and then we try to convert the html into SharePoint 2013 Master Page using Design Manager. All goes well if your html meets the basic requirements detailed in the MSDN Article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822370.aspx . One problem I noticed is that "Focus On Content" functionality (as shown below) which hides the Quick launch bar, does not work properly. For focus on content functionality to work, a DIV with ID "contentBox" should be the outer DIV of the default content DIV because SharePoint uses the "contentBox" id to manipulate left margins as soon as the Quick Launch is hidden. See below screenshot of out of the box Seattle master page html file. Comparing the converted master page html from out of the box Seattle master page html revealed that this outer DIV is missing from the converted file. So, in order to make focus on content ...