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By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com Guide to Web Design / HTML since 1997

DIV is your friend, but don't get too friendly

Tuesday August 1, 2006
I admit, I am as guilty of this habit as the next person - I have built Web pages that are infected with divitis. This is the condition where nearly every element on the page is either a div or surrounded by a div. Luckily this condition, while serious, is not fatal, and is curable. You just use semantic markup to create pages that use tags that identify the content, rather than div tags alone.

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August 6, 2006 at 10:23 am
(1) Andrew says:

I’m almost sure, this divitis is very important for HTML standart.

August 6, 2006 at 4:57 pm
(2) Jennifer Kyrnin says:

I’m not sure what you mean. Yes, DIVs are an important part of the Web standard, but using DIV instead of tags that are more semantically meaningful goes against the goals of the standard.

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