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Sorry, for the newbie question, but it is a common practice or recommended to use this :
<div>
My Text Here!
</div>
Instead of :
<div>
<p> My Text Here! </p>
</div>
The question really is, if it is valid to display text directly in a div (I see it in the browser), but I wonder about other repercussion, like for example, being seen for a search engine?
Remember that <p> for styling purposes behaves exactly like <div> - it's a standard block level element.
Using <p>, would cause a space between the title and the box drawn by the div.
[edited by: fischermx at 8:51 pm (utc) on April 13, 2005]
Remember that <p> for styling purposes behaves exactly like <div> - it's a standard block level element.
Yes, it is a "standard block element", but "behaves exactly like" may be a bit misleading. Browsers do not treat them precisely the same --unless told to do otherwise, they add a top margin before the <p>, a bottom margin after the block.
fishermx,
if the default margins are your reason for using<div> instead of <p> remember that you can define a style for <p> that removes the margin (it isn't actually an "extra linebreak"). Alternately, you can create a class for any paragraphs you wish to style differently from the rest, and adjust the margins for that class however you wish.
Do these default margins have anything to do with why you wish to use <div> instead of <p> in some cases?
Yes, that's the only reason, to avoid the space below the paragraph.
Could you give an example?
p
{
margin:0;
}
Thank you!
