Breaking up a Page into Divisions

Breaking up your page into divisions allows you to apply styles to an entire chunk of your page at once. This is particularly useful for designing layouts with CSS (see page 169).

To break up a page into divisions:

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At the beginning of the division, type <div.
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If desired, type id="name", where name uniquely identifies the division.
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If desired, type class="name", where name is the identifying name of the class that the division belongs to.
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Type > to complete the opening div tag.
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Create the contents of the division.
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At the end of the division, type </div>.
Figure 3.16. There is one large enclosing division (that begins with the level one header and goes to just before the closing body tag) ...

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