CSS Positioning, Reading Order, and Navigation Links
The <div> element is similar to the <span> element in that the only reason it exists is to allow designers to associate styles with chunks of material. But the chunks that the <div> element works with are generally bigger. The <div> element is a block-level element, meaning that it can encompass a variety of other elements, including paragraphs, tables, lists, other <div> elements, and so on. By contrast, the <span> element is an inline element, meaning that it always ropes off a “span” inside another element—part of a paragraph, part of a table row, part of a label, and so on.
The <div> element is also an important tool for using CSS to position elements on the screen—to take them out of ...
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