Sent by Steve Clay on 18 February 2004 14:02
Saturday, February 14, 2004, 12:19:30 PM, [EMAIL-REMOVED] wrote:
dcn> What actually is a container...
Generally a container is an element in the markup that "contains" your
element of interest (is its direct parent):
<blockquote><!-- BLOCKQUOTE is a container of P -->
<p>paragraph</p>
</blockquote>
A container is useful in CSS because it gives you another target for styles
and background-images. If your document is well-structured, you may be
able to get all your styling done without adding containers, but, if
someone suggests "adding a container", usually they mean giving the element
your trying to style a parent DIV or SPAN (depending if you're containing
block or inline elements). The HTML spec describes this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-DIV
HTH,
Steve
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