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HTML HTML Forms HTML Mastery

Mamady Doumbouya
Mamady Doumbouya
680 Points
Posted by Mamady Doumbouya
Mamady Doumbouya
680 Points

div tag

I have question on "DIV Tag". It was not covered in any prior instructions. What to do?

2 Answers

jdh
jdh
12,334 Points
jdh
jdh
12,334 Points

divs are used primarily for defining "sections" or blocks in HTML and then applying CSS to those sections through classes or id's.

For instance, say we wanted to have two columns side-by-side. We can use use the div tag around our text in each column and then apply the CSS classes or IDs which position and style each column accordingly.

        ```html
        <div class="left-column">This is our left column!</div>
        <div class="right-column">This is our right column!</div>
        ```

If we render this in the browser its just going to show two paragraphs in-line. We then apply the css to the classes within the <div> :)

        ```css
       .left-column { float: left; width: 50%; text-align: center; background-color: #f1f1f1; }
       .right-column { float: right; width: 50%; text-align: center; background-color: #dcdcdc; }

        ```

Hope this helps!

Sean May
Sean May
9,547 Points
Sean May
Sean May
9,547 Points

I think he just wants to know what a div is. I can understand, it took me a little bit to realize that a div is just sort of an empty bucket that doesn't necessarily do anything on its own, but can make organizing your HTML and applying CSS super easy.