Using the DIV Element
In HTML 4, the DIV element is a block element used to designate a division within a document. Otherwise, the DIV element has no formatting characteristics, although the deprecated ALIGN attribute can be used to center or right-align its content. From the start, the DIV element was intended to take any formatting characteristics from styles.
By nesting other elements within a DIV element, any styles applied to the DIV element also impact those nested elements. In the following example, a DIV rule is added to the style sheet, set to be displayed with a border, background image, and other formatting characteristics:
div { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; color: #ffff99; background: navy url(dark.jpg); ...Get Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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