HTML5 <div> Tag

Example

A section in a document that will be displayed in green:

<div style="color:#00FF00">
<h3>This is a header</h3>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</div>

Try it yourself »

The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document.

The <div> tag is often used to group block-elements to format them with styles.

The "align" attribute is deprecated in HTML 4.01, and not supported in HTML5. Use CSS to align the div's content.

Tip: The div element is very often used with CSS to layout a web page.

Note: Browsers usually place a line break before and after the div element.

The <div> tag also supports the Standard Attributes in HTML5.

The <div> tag also supports the Event Attributes in HTML5.