Div tags + Common HTML layout tags

 

<div> tag

• Block-level Element
• Configure Specially formatted DIVISION or area of a web page
• Line before and after
• Can contain other block-lvel and inline elements line <p> and <span>

An example (with some CSS style applied to it) to create a "footer"

<div class=“footer">Copyright &copy; 2009</div>

 

 

 

 

<span>

• configure area displayed IN-LINE wiht other elements...like within a paragraph
• NO line break before or after
• can apply your own styling to it.

Example

<span class="Hightlight_Grey"> This is important!!! </span>

This is important!!!! 

 

We will talk about CSS in another lecture.