div

Element information

Content

• Any text (mixed) content, intermingled with:
from type Flow
Choice [0..*]
from group block
p
from group heading
h1
h2
h3
h4
h5
h6
div generic language/style container
from group lists
ul Unordered list
ol Ordered (numbered) list
dl
from group blocktext
pre content is "Inline" excluding "img|object|big|small|sub|sup"
hr
blockquote
address information on author
fieldset The fieldset element is used to group form fields. Only one legend element should occur in the content and if present should only be preceded by whitespace. NOTE: this content model is different from the XHTML 1.0 DTD, closer to the intended content model in HTML4 DTD
table
• form
from group inline
a content is "Inline" except that anchors shouldn't be nested
from group special
from group special.pre
br forced line break
span generic language/style container
bdo I18N BiDi over-ride
map
object
img
from group fontstyle
tt fixed pitch font
i italic font
b bold font
big bigger font
small smaller font
from group phrase
em emphasis
strong strong emphasis
dfn definitional
code program code
q inlined quote
samp sample
kbd something user would type
var variable
cite citation
abbr abbreviation
acronym acronym
sub subscript
sup superscript
from group inline.forms
input form control
select option selector
textarea multi-line text field
label Each label must not contain more than ONE field Label elements shouldn't be nested.
button Content is "Flow" excluding a, form and form controls
from group misc
noscript alternate content container for non script-based rendering
from group misc.inline
ins
del
script script statements, which may include CDATA sections

Attributes

Used in

• Anonymous type of element button  via extension of button.content
• Anonymous type of element noscript  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element body  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element blockquote  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element div  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element li  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element dd  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element ins  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element del  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element th  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element td  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element form  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element object  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element map  via reference to block
• Anonymous type of element fieldset  via reference to block
• Group block
• Type button.content
• Type Block  via reference to block
• Type Flow  via reference to block
• Type form.content  via reference to block

Sample instance

<div> <--any elements or text--> </div>