Old Style: The Omnipotent <div>
Explore how the div tag has been a fundamental but semantically weak element in HTML structure. Understand the challenges it creates for readability and maintenance as web pages grow complex. Learn why clearer, semantic HTML5 elements improve both developer and search engine comprehension.
It’s amazing how much the web changed in the last decade!
In contrast to this, it’s surprising how prehistoric HTML remained for a long time, how verbose and ambiguous markup was created by developers in response to new challenges.
Undoubtedly, the reason for this ancient style was the semantic weakness of HTML. With the emergence of CSS, the conciseness of webpages has improved by styling attributes and you can leave the content and moved to the style section of the page, but the HTML content of complex pages stayed messier by the sheer page structure.