> From: Crazy Miz B of the Crazed Cowboys <paula@crazedcowboys.com>
> Reply-To: <dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com>
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:54:20 -0700
> To: <dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com>
> Subject: At Suz's Orders! <div align
>
> " A generic tag used to format large blocks of HTML, also used for
> stylesheets"
> http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
>
>
> I've been played with tags all day as Suz suggested;
>
>> I suggest that you approach HTML the same way you've approached CSS,
>> by doing it directly in the code. Don't try to read about HTML or look
>> for answers; just learn to write it yourself.
>>
>> First, quit Dreamweaver and start up Simpletext.
>
> ACK! OS 9! Can I do it in TextEdit?

I imagine so. Or BBEdit, as long as you don't cheat and use its tag editing
features.


> but I'm still not sure *why* it is "div" and when one decides to use
> it<snip>
>
> DW has always just inserted it at will...and I've never questioned it.
> DUH?!

DIV is one of those newish things that you could easily live without for
awhile. Somewhere in DW preferences, there's a place to turn it off.
Basically, by itself, DIV and /DIV only define a beginning and an end of a
block of stuff and does little -- if anything -- by itself. It works when
you add other attributes such as align="center" to it or add a CSS class or
id to it.

Back in the good old days when it was all simpler, <center></center> meant
center, but I think it's been deprecated in favor of the DIV version.
>
> So now I could use a human to add a bit to the description
> above----same goes for preformatted text (which I do see in DW---but
> never figured out.)

Preformatted text is more obscure and has limited applications. It simply
means that whatever's typed between the <pre></pre> tags will reproduce in a
monospaced font exactly as typed, complete with tabs, margins, blank spaces,
line breaks, or whatever. Example:

In regular HTML, if you want a line of type<br>
to be on two lines, you have to add a <br> tag.


<pre>
With preformatted text, if you want a line of type
to be on two lines, you simply type it that way.
</pre>

By the way, the best way to figure this kind of thing out is simply to type
it and see what happens when you view the page in a browser.

By the way, of all the fundamental HTML stuff, tables are probably the most
essential and least understood. Forget <pre> and work on tables.

Suz


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