Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Div Tag - Introduction





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Paragraph tags are not Wikitext

 * You have learned that text can be placed on pages simply by the "copy-and-paste" technique.
 * You also learned that you can separate text, particularly sentences and paragraphs, using the 'enter' key or line breaks:.
 * However, you cannot add attributes to line breaks.
 * To deal with adding attributes, you learned about using the paragraph tag or P-tags: Lorem ipsum …...

 We are now going to talk about a tag equivalent to the P-tag called the DIV-tag.

Div tags

 * They are also HTML coding.
 * Use div tags if you want to have the paragraphs right next to each other with no spaces between but still have the ability to add attributes to them.
 * Let us introduce you to a new tag which is used far more than paragraph tags and the real workhorse of the Wiki.
 * It is the  tag commonly referred to as a “div tag”.
 * The “div” stands for “division” and means a division or part of a page.
 * It works just a like a paragraph tag but does not have any built in spacing.

Div tags are containers

 * Div tags can be looked upon as containers.
 * Whatever attributes are applied between the opening   and closing    div tag will not affect the other parts of the page.
 * The paragraph acts the same way.
 * You can compare div tags to a box of bottles. You can rearrange bottles in a box but it will not affect bottles in other boxes.

How div tags affect paragraphs
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec sit amet iaculis metus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Fusce elementum efficitur faucibus. Curabitur eleifend quis ligula ac ullamcorper. Curabitur eget suscipit turpis.  Lorem ipsum ...   Lorem ipsum ....
 * So let's put two paragraphs on a page using div tags with different background colors and see how they appear on the page:
 * Here is the coding:

In the next chapter we will talk about how to separate them.
 * NOTICE that the borders of the backgrounds are touching.

Try these out


 Exercises Check your answers
 * Copy and paste our lorem ipsum paragraphs twice with the first one with a background color of "moccasin" and the second one with a color "crimson," both with a padding of 20 pixels, but using div tags instead of paragraph tags:

 Quick Quiz
 * The div tag and paragraph tag function the same way.
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * The attributes work the same way in the div tag as in the paragraph tag
 * A. True
 * B. False


 * Div tags put spaces between paragraphs
 * A. True
 * B. False

Check your answers

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