The div tag is nothing more than a container for other tags. Much like the body tag, Div elements are block elements and work behind the scenes grouping other tags together. Use only the following attributes with your div element, anything else should be reserved for CSS. (CSS Tutorial)
id
width
height
title
style
For the purpose of this example, we have included the style attribute in order to color our div tag in order to bring a stronger visualization for our viewers.
HTML Code:
HTML Div Element:
SEARCH LINKS
Above is a great visual about how a div plays the role of a container for other HTML elements, applying a background color/image is the only real way to visualize your div tags.
HTML - Div Layouts
When HTML first began, web creators only had two choices. A table layout, or frames. The div element provides a 3rd alternative, since a div can contain any/every other type of html element within its beginning and ending tag.
HTML Code:
Content Articles
This paragraph would be your content
paragraph with all of your readable material.
HTML Div Layout:
HOME | CONTACT | ABOUT
Content Articles
This paragraph would be your content paragraph with all of your readable material.
Advanced web developers find div elements to be far easier to work with than tables, adding more content or more links to our previous example might demonstrates why a div is simpler to work with.
Let's add a "LINKS" page to our menu, and another article of content below the existing content.
HTML Code:
Content Articles
This paragraph would be your content
paragraph with all of your readable material.
Content Article Number Two
Here's another content article right here.
HTML Div Layout II:
HOME | CONTACT | ABOUT | LINKS
Content Articles
This paragraph would be your content paragraph with all of your readable material.
Content Article Number Two
Here's another content article right here.
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