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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS Welcome to HTML and CSS

Posted by Louis Espinoza
Louis Espinoza
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Why are we using a div followed by a class name of main-nav?

I was just curious as to why we are using a div with the class name main-nav instead of using the nav element with a class of main-nav?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Bert Witzel
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Bert Witzel
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Bert Witzel
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Bert Witzel
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 27,917 Points

Hi Louis, great question. Actually both div and nav are fine to use here because they are semantic html, although it would be better to use nav. If you are doing or someday want to do the Front End Web Development Techdegree, the first project works with code similar to this and one of the steps is to change the div tags to nav tags.