Division Tag - Span Tag

Division Tag

• Div is Short Form of Division Tag.
• The <div> element defines logical division within the document.
• These means when you see or use a div tag, you are indicating that the enclosed content is a specific section of the webpage.
• Now a day’s instead of table <div> tag is used more prominently as it is SEO friendly and also makes the coder job easier.
• Div is a Block Level Element / Content .
• <div> tag is not a replacement of the <p> tag.
• <p> tag is for paragraph, <div> tag is for more general division within a document.
• <div> element is typically used in XHTML and CSS documents to Position portion of the page.

Span

• <span> tag has similar property of <div> tag the only difference is it changes the style of the text it encloses.
• Span tag goes to finer level so we can span to format single character if needed.
• It is not a block level content.