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You can still use div
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 by Mike Robinson.

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“Sorry, can you say that again?”, I hear you ask. Certainly: you can still use <div>! Despite HTML5 bringing us new elements like <article>, <section>, and <aside>, the <div> element still has its place. Let the HTML5 Doctor tell you why.

Status: Unchanged

In HTML 4, the <div> element was defined to be a generic element for structuring a page. Although you can allude to the nature of its content by assigning id and class attributes with meaningful names, a <div> has almost no semantic meaning. The HTML5 definitionis basically the same as in HTML 4:

The div element has no special meaning at all. It represents its children. It can be used with the class, lang, and title attributes to mark up semantics common to a group of consecutive elements.

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<div> is literally a container for flow content*, a collection of (hopefully) more semantically marked-up content that may need to be grouped together. It lies at the opposite end of the semantic spectrum from the new [...]

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