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+4  Q: 

What is the HTML tag `div` short for?

What is the div in the <div> tag short for? Is it "division"? I've looked around Google and SO and haven't found an answer.

+3  A: 

Division. The DIV tag is is designed to allow you to define "divisions" of a page (or to "divide a page into logical containers").

jrista  2009-08-29 01:24:27
A: 

Division it is.

 2009-08-29 01:25:23
+19  A: 

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32#block

Document division

Rushyo  2009-08-29 01:26:02
+1 for finding an authoritative W3C reference.
Daniel Pryden  2009-08-29 01:26:53
+2  A: 

Bear in mind that the definition of div is completely different in HTML 5.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/interactive-elements.html#the-div-element

 2009-08-29 09:33:18
[citation needed]
annakata  2009-08-29 09:35:54

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