HTML div tag and element

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:13 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

1. HTML div element is a generic container for holding other elements.

2. Usually, div element is used to group elements together to implement style (using id or class attributes) or language information or JavaScript DOM(using id or class attributes), when another element is found suitable to form that group.

3. The element does not contain any content directly.

Syntax

<div>other elements </div>

Whether both start and end tags are required

Both start and end tags are required.

Can contain

HTML div element can contain inline as well as block level elements.

Can reside within

HTML div element can reside within APPLET, BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, BUTTON, CENTER, DD, DEL, DIV, FIELDSET, FORM, IFRAME, INS, LI, MAP, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, OBJECT, TD, TH.

DOCTYPE support

HTML 4.01 Strict, HTML 4.01 Transitional, HTML 4.01 Frameset.

Attributes

Attributes specific to this element

None.

dentifiers

id and class.

language information and text direction

lang, dir.

Title

title.

Style

style.

align

align attribute defines the alignment of text written within a div element. Values may be left for aligning the text left, right for aligning the text right and center for aligning the text center.

Events

onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup.

Example of using HTML div element

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>html div tag example</title>
<style type="text/css">
.demo {
background-color: aliceblue;
color: navy;
font-family: arial;
border: 1px solid silver;

} 

</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="demo">
<p>We are learning HTML div element.</p>
<p>This is a part of the HTML tutorial. We have also tutorials for the following : -</p> 
<ul>
<li>PHP Tutorial</li> 
<li>CSS Tutorial</li> 
<li>SQL Tutorial</li> 
<li>MySQL Tutorial</li>
<li>JavaScript Tutorial</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Result

Exaplanation

We have set some styles for a two paragraph and a list, and enclosed those elements within a div element. class="demo" assigns the style to the div.

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HTML div tag example.

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