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Can "div" Elements Be Nested?

Can "div" elements be nested? The answer is yes. In fact, nested "div" elements provides you more flexibilities to specify CSS properties at different levels. Here is a tutorial example of nested "div" elements:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
 <head>
  <title>Nested DIV Elements</title>
 </head>
 <body>
  <h4>XHTML Interview Questions</h4>
 <div style="background-color: #884422; width: 400px; 
  padding: 12px">
  <div style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 4px;
   font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">
   Q: What is the number one advantage of using XHTML?
  </div>
  <div style="background-color: #ffeeff; 
   padding: 4px 4px 4px 20px;">
   A: XHTML documents are well-formed XML documents.
   This allows your documents to be processed by any XML 
   applications.</div>
  <div style="background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 4px;
   font-style: italic; font-weight: bold">
   Q: What is most difficult part when converting 
   a HTML document into an XHTML document?</div>
  <div style="background-color: #ffeeff; 
   padding: 4px 4px 4px 20px;">
   A: The most difficult part is to make all elements
   are closed. XML documents requires that all elements
   must be closed with closing tags or with the extra "/" 
   at the end of the opening tag.</div>
 </div>
 </body>
</html>

If you save the above document as nested_div.html and view it with Internet Explorer, you will see that the outer "div" element helped to define a nice looking border as shown below:
Nested DIV Elements

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