DIV

Description

The <DIV> element is basically used as a 'container' to contain other HTML elements and display them discretely from the rest of the document by adding paragraph breaks before and after the contents of the <DIV> element.

Syntax

<DIV
ALIGN=alignment
CLASS=Style Sheet class name
DATAFLD=colname
DATAFORMATAS=HTML| TEXT
DATASRC=Data Source
ID=value
LANG=language
LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT | JSCRIPT | VBSCRIPT | VBS
STYLE=styling
TITLE=text
event = script
>

Parameter

Description

ALIGN

Specifies the alignment for the control-like element. The possible values of this attribute are: left, right, top, texttop, middle, absmiddle, baseline, bottom, absbottom.

CLASS

Class of the tag being defined. This is used to associate a subclassed style sheet with the tag.

DATAFLD

Column name from the data source object that supplies the bound data.

DATAFORMATAS

Indicates whether the bound data is HTML or plain text.

DATASRC

ID of the data source object that supplies the data that is bound to this element.

ID

SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. Valid ID values must begin with a letter. The underscore character, "_", may be used in the ID name. The ID should be unique throughout the scope of the document. If more than one object with the same identifier exists in a document, a collection of those named items is created that can only be referenced by ordinal position.

LANG

Specifies which language to use in ISO standard language abbreviation form.

LANGUAGE

Specifies the language the current script is written in and invokes the proper scripting engine. The default value is JAVASCRIPT.
* JAVASCRIPT, JSCRIPT The script is written in JScript.
* VBS, VBSCRIPT The script is written in VBScript.

STYLE

Inline style sheet for the tag.

TITLE

The TITLE attribute is for advisory information (unless used with a mailto: attribute). The Title attribute should provide the title of the document whose address is given by the HREF attribute. The contents of the title attribute will be displayed in a tooltip during the mouse moves on the link. Internet Explorer 4.0 (and above) is the only browser to implement this.

event

Can be one or more of these events:
onafterupdate ;
onbeforeupdate ;
onblur ;
onclick ;
ondblclick ;
ondragstart ;
onfocus ;
onhelp ;
onkeydown ;
onkeypress ;
onkeyup ;
onmousedown ;
onmousemove ;
onmouseout ;
onmouseover ;
onmouseup ;
onresize ;
onrowenter ;
onrowexit ;
onselectstart

 

Example

<DIV>This is a section.</DIV><DIV ALIGN=CENTER>
This is another section, and the text is centered.</DIV>

The code is rendered as:

This is a section.
This is another section, and the text is centered.

Remarks

You should not include the SELECT, BUTTON, INPUT, or A within the BUTTON tag.

This element is a block element. Both the start and end tags are required.