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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Add a New Page

Posted by Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points

section vs div

what is difference between section and div?

2 Answers

Konstantinos Pedarakis
Konstantinos Pedarakis
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Konstantinos Pedarakis
Konstantinos Pedarakis
21,301 Points

There is no a major difference between the two as far as the Document Object Model is concerned, meaning you can achieve what you want by either using a div or a section. But.... a div is a generic container that could represent anything, used for grouping elements for styling purposes in most of the cases while a section represents a generic section-grouping of the document typically containing a heading as well. it has more semantic meaning.

Hope that helps. :)

Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points

Thank you Konstantinos!

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points
Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

I'm not 100% sure (must've coded in Python & Ruby too long lol), but I do know that divs are like boxes and are used more often than sections.

Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points

Thank you Alexander!