Div Tags - What are they?

[PolarBear]

I've been reading up a few things and I'd like to know what exactly is a Div tag and what does it do, I've searched google and tried to understand but I've only gone though a few links and nothing was clear on what they are good for and what they do?

Also I have some book(s) on HTML but anyone know a site that lists and what they do all the HTML tags out there?

[Toon]

This lists most tags and there meanings

HTML element - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[PR Design]

It is a container. Imagine it as a cell from a table, except much more versatile.

[PolarBear]

So it is like a table cell in other words. How much more versatile is it?

Also in specificlly dreamweaver can you convert a a:hover to a a:link ?

--- I forgot to also add, and correct me if I'm wrong, but a inline style sheet is a style sheet that is within the HTML code and not external ?

[LeadMagnet]

It's not like a table cell really.
It's a box shaped container that people use to logically divide up webpages. You can give them ids or classes and use css to apply styles to them and adjust their size, position, z-index etc. aswell as change the styles of anything contained inside.
You can also use css to add text into a div tag. There's more i'm forgetting probably. The main thing is positioning anyway.

a:hover and a:link are not what i think you think they are. They're both states of anchor tags.
a:link is the normal state of an anchor tag that is unvisited.
a:hover defines the style of an anchor tag when your mouse is over it.

[PR Design]

Originally Posted by LeadMagnet

It's not like a table cell really.

What I meant by that was the fact that they are 'square' and you fill them with content. It is pretty much the table based equivalent of xhtml/css in that it contains your content.

[PolarBear]

Oh, so layers are not Div. See this is what I'm still confused upon, things like ids and classes. I just tried this morning to apply a css to a image a:hover so when you go over the image it changes to another image but it's not working, then I even tried it with text and it didn't work when the other day it did work (something I'm not doing right arrgh)

So you can't change a a:hover style to a a:link, correct? and that question is more focused on dreamweaver.

[PR Design]

<img class="one" src="pic.jpg" />

.one:hover{
css in here
}

[LeadMagnet]

Originally Posted by PolarBear

Oh, so layers are not Div. See this is what I'm still confused upon, things like ids and classes. I just tried this morning to apply a css to a image a:hover so when you go over the image it changes to another image but it's not working, then I even tried it with text and it didn't work when the other day it did work (something I'm not doing right arrgh)

So you can't change a a:hover style to a a:link, correct? and that question is more focused on dreamweaver.

I really don't understand the question, sorry.

You should also know that dreamweaver does not create some special brand of webpage, so any question like "Ok, so does technique X or Y work in dreamweaver too?" is pointless, because there's nothing you can do in dreamweaver that you can't do in notepad (or textedit on a mac).

[PR Design]

Best answer I can give: buy a book.