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Huy Tran
1,994 PointsQuick question about div tag
I think I get what div is mainly used for and would like to understand it more clearly. It is use in conjunction with css to set things like your font size or color. If say your images or entire body is nested in a div tag and you go to CSS and set the margin or pixel size for div. The website will display according to what you set. Practically to separate elements and serves as a container or like what the video said a "wrapper?
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Chyno Deluxe
16,936 PointsThe div is used for identifying and separating your website into sections. You identify them with classes(used for repetitive use) and ids(unique name that can only be used once in a web page)
jason chan
31,009 PointsTook me well several years to understand the concept. Think of divs is like a block on webpage. You can style that block.
jason chan
31,009 Pointsyou only need to know id and classes for css. Anyways goodluck.