HTML "<div class>" Thingy....

[DimasRMDO]

So can someone explain to me what's this actually?

When I was making a website someone told me to put this:

<div class="XXXXXX"><div class="container"> </div></div>

After <div class="container"> is the content.

 

What do <div class="___"> and <div class="container"> do in HTML?

Is this "container" a must or optional? Because after the first <div class="__"> there's always <div class="container">.

 

I'm a beginner.

[minibois]

It's very much optional.

You can use those div's to edit specific spaces of your website with css (like make all text in 'XXXXXX' red and make all the text in 'container' blue)

[TheKDub]

The stuff within the quotes ("Container" for example) can be whatever you want it to be, just know what you set it to in case you need to use it for something. (Such as assigning formatting things in a CSS file)

[vorticalbox]

So can someone explain to me what's this actually?

When I was making a website someone told me to put this:

<div class="XXXXXX"><div class="container"> </div></div>

After <div class="container"> is the content.

 

What do <div class="___"> and <div class="container"> do in HTML?

Is this "container" a must or optional? Because after the first <div class="__"> there's always <div class="container">.

 

I'm a beginner.

 

<div> is a division on the page or section.

 

the class allows you to apply styling, if you want some things to be centred you make a centre class in your CSS

.centre{text-align: center;} 

this would allow you to style any text to the centre using the class tag

<p class='centre'>text</p><h1 class='centre'>text</h1>

container is just another class.

.container{width: 80%;height: 500px;} 

would make the div 80% of the window width and 500 pixels high.

[DimasRMDO]

<div> is a division on the page or section.

 

the class allows you to apply styling, if you want some things to be centred you make a centre class in your CSS

.centre{text-align: center;} 

this would allow you to style any text to the centre using the class tag

<p class='centre'>text</p><h1 class='centre'>text</h1>

container is just another class.

.container{width: 80%;height: 500px;} 

would make the div 80% of the window width and 500 pixels high.

So class is to tag? So when we edit it more using CSS any text that's in the "Class" will be affected, am I correct?

[vorticalbox]

So class is to tag? So when we edit it more using CSS any text that's in the "Class" will be affected, am I correct?

Yes it allows you to add the same style to everything in that class. so if you wanted all <p>text</p> to be left aligned, green and underlined you would create the class then <p class='name'> </p> .