XHTML and nested divs

[dbunder]

I'm currently designing a site and I want to conform of XHTML standard
(transitional). On a few parts of my site I need to use nested di
tags. XHTML does not allow this for some reason. Is there another wa
I could write something like

<div class="content"> <!--container tag-->
<div class="contentheader"><!--header tag with border-->
a header
</div>
</div>

I've not kept up with HTML or stylesheets for the past few years so I'
kinda rusty. Thanks for any help

dbunde

 

[Leif K-Brooks]

I'm currently designing a site and I want to conform of XHTML standards
(transitional). On a few parts of my site I need to use nested div
tags. XHTML does not allow this for some reason. Is there another way
I could write something like

<div class="content"> <!--container tag-->
<div class="contentheader"><!--header tag with border-->
a header
</div>
</div>

That should be perfectly valid (although the div.content header should
probably be a <h#>). There's probably something else on the page that's
invalid, URL?

 

[John McGaw]

I'm currently designing a site and I want to conform of XHTML standards
(transitional). On a few parts of my site I need to use nested div
tags. XHTML does not allow this for some reason. Is there another way
I could write something like

<div class="content"> <!--container tag-->
<div class="contentheader"><!--header tag with border-->
a header
</div>
</div>

I've not kept up with HTML or stylesheets for the past few years so I'm
kinda rusty. Thanks for any help!


dbunder

Don't know what your problem is but nested DIVs are perfectly legal. I just
got done changing my old site over to XHTML 1.1, which is by default strict
and has no relaxed standards. Every page is chock full of nested DIVs,
usually two deep but sometimes three or more from what I remember, and it
W3C certifies just fine Can't claim that it is a work of art but it even
works fine and looks about the same in every modern browser I have access
to.
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