This element is a general container for a part of the contents of a page. Through the DIV element you can add attributes, like style information, to this whole division. The DIV element will not show anything when used without any other attribute.

A division will terminate a paragraph opened with the P element.

<DIV align="center"> is the same as the deprecated <CENTER> element.

The difference between this element and the SPAN element is that the span element works inline, and the div element creates block-level content. With block-level content, most browsers surround the block by whitespace, starting at a new line.

<!ELEMENT DIV - - (%flow;)*            -- generic language/style container -->
<!ATTLIST DIV
  %attrs;                              -- %coreattrs, %i18n, %events --
>

Core attributes: class id style title
Internationalization attributes: dir lang
Events: onclick ondblclick onmousedown onmouseup onmouseover onmousemove onmouseout onkeypress onkeydown onkeyup

Value	Description
CENTER	Centers the contents between the margins of the division.
JUSTIFY	This value will space the contents of the division evenly between the two margins of the division. This value is not supported by the HTML 3.2 and Netscape Navigator 3.0.
LEFT	Places the contents to the left side of the divison. This is the default alignment when the text direction is left to right.
RIGHT	Places the contents to the right side of the divison. This is the default alignment when the text direction is left to right.

Netscape Navigator 4.0 has problems displaying the last line of a division when the division has a fixed width, set with a style sheet (see the examples).

<DIV align="right"> This text is completely right-aligned which means that every line<BR> aligns to the right side of the page.<BR> <IMG src="IMG1.jpg" alt="A nice bird" width="56" height="100"> </DIV>

This text is completely right-aligned which means that every line aligns to the right side of the page.

<DIV align="center" style="width: 200px;"> <EM>align="center"</EM><BR> Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example. </DIV>

align="center" Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example.

<DIV align="justify" style="width: 200px;"> <EM>align="justify"</EM><BR> Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example. </DIV>

align="justify" Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example.

<DIV align="left" style="width: 200px;"> <EM>align="left"</EM><BR> Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example. </DIV>

align="left" Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example.

<DIV align="right" style="width: 200px;"> <EM>align="right"</EM><BR> Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example. </DIV>

align="right" Hello there, this is just some text to see how the alignment of text inside a division looks like. It's not a very interesting text, but I just had to have some text to create the example.