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Usage

HTML 5 says, "The div element represents nothing at all. It can be used with the class, lang, and title attributes to mark up semantics common to a group of consecutive elements."

Attributes

• align
• clear
• cols
• gutter
• height
• nowrap
• width
• common attributes

Browser compatibility

Compatibility table legend

| Test | IE8 | IE7 | IE6 | FF3 | FF2 | Saf3 | Op9 | Chrome | |:---------|:--------|:--------|:--------|:--------|:--------|:---------|:--------|:-----------| | appears in DOM | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | | applies style | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |

Further reading

• The div element in HTML 5
• The div element in HTML 4
• The div element on MSDN
• The history of the div element on blooberry.com