| The div is basically utilized to establish separate areas | | | | controlled through Cascading style sheets and |
| or divisions of the website page. This is amongst the | | | | therefore, needs less coding that helps in keeping the |
| extremely powerful elements in "XHTML", since it is | | | | file size to the minimal. |
| necessary for placing the design of web page using | | | | Friendly to all search engines - CSS based websites |
| "CSS". | | | | are search engine optimization friendly as these |
| Designing a simple web Page with div:- | | | | enable the web designer to keep main articles on top |
| Businessmen who consider their sites to be important | | | | allowing search engines to find main contents more |
| for their business marketing needs must consider | | | | easily. |
| redesigning their sites with div tags. In simple words, | | | | Saving on bandwidth - A table-less website has |
| this process means implementing sites devoid of | | | | smaller file size, which means that it saves your |
| making use of tables for layout and positioning. Div | | | | bandwidth. If you have a huge traffic site, where |
| tags use style sheets which are commonly referred | | | | each page is browsed by the site visitors, you shall |
| to as "Cascading style sheets" or "CSS" which allow | | | | save on the bandwidth size by not having tables. This |
| the web design of the site to be independent of | | | | saved bandwidth amount could be useful over a time |
| data. | | | | period or at the end of the month. |
| Designing backgrounds with colors and fonts, width, | | | | Cleaner Code - The websites using div tags and CSS |
| height, layout and positioning of rows or columns can | | | | generates cleaner code. This cleaner code permits |
| all be inserted into style sheets leaving only div code | | | | crawlers of search engines to read the actual |
| and information on actual pages. | | | | content. |
| Benefits of making use of div tags or table-less: - | | | | Besides, site based on div tags are quite easy to |
| Loading of sites become faster - Websites that are | | | | maintain as the layout is controlled by a single file. |
| based on div tags render browsers to run much | | | | Doing alteration on a single file reflects changes on all |
| faster as they come in a very light weight. Div is | | | | pages of site where the CSS has been put in use. |