HTML Div Tag

Whenever you want to apply some effect like change of text color on a group or over a large section of your document, you can use <div> tag. With the help of HTML div tag you can make a group of large sections of HTML elements together and apply CSS on that whole section. Developers usually use <div> element to group together large number of HTML elements and apply CSS styles to these elements in a single shot.

The main difference between the div tag and the span tag is that div is used with block-level elements whereas span is used with inline elements.

Syntax

<div style="color:#FF00FF;">
<p>Paragraph1</p>
<p>Paragraph2</p></div>

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Span Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="color:#FF00FF;">
<b>Welcome!</b>
<p>Welcome to techstrikers!</p>
</div>
<p>Welcome to techstrikers!</p>
</body>
</html>

This will produce following result

Welcome!

Welcome to techstrikers!

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