The Wonderful <div> Tag

Instead of putting align in every tag just to get a page to lay out properly then try something else. Well, the <div> tag is a good choice.

I think it's pretty useful, though, and recommend you give it a try. It won't solve all your problems - you'll still have to use tables occasionally - but it works fine for formatting large blocks of text, images, and just about anything else that has an HTML tag around it. It's supported by Netscape Navigator 2.0+ and Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0+, and is particularly effective when used with stylesheets.

So let's get started. Say you have some text, an image, and then some more text, and you want to center them on your page, like this:

I am a person!

My name is not important in this case.

Now, normally you might do something like this:


But with the <div> tag, your code would look like this:

Thats how it works. Neat it isnt? The <div> tag will also work with other tags, like tables, forms, and lists.

If you want those two paragraphs aligned to the left side of your page, but you want the image aligned in the center then you can overwrite <div> tags by simply adding an align attribute to the tag you want to be different. Once the tag closes, the <div> tag takes effect again.

I will talk about using divs with CSS and stuff later on i think. I guess ya oughta wait.

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