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Diane Ancheril
1,109 PointsCan someone explain to me what the element 'div' does again?
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John Gaddy
4,836 PointsThe <div></div> tag is used in formatting your html code. <div> is usually used to group items in your html together in a container.
Justin Cooper
6,141 Pointsdiv makes a container for you to put stuff in and apply design to
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,254 PointsThe div element is the main block element that separates one part of an element from another. Like many other elements they're block level and they make full use of the box model. They take a default amount of space on their own but also have default padding, margin and border values.
In HTML5 more specific div elements were released that do the same thing as div but help us create more semantic HTML.
These are Nav, Article, Section, Header and Footer. :-)