HTML Question

[redrabbit]

Guys, is it bad to have nested div's. On my page at the moment i have this:

<div class="heading">
<h3> MY HEADING! </h3>
</div>

<div class="content">
<div class="left">
<div class="nav">
<h3> Home </h3>
<h3> Contact </h3>
</div>

<div class="main">
<h3> HELLO, this is main text </h3>
</div>

</div>

A friend of mine said its bad to have nested div's and that you should only ever have one open at a time. I cant see why it would be bad to have nested div's.

Anyone ?

[LordShryku]

This should probably be in the Echo Lounge forum, but I see nothing wrong with nesting divs...

[planetsim]

I think your getting confused with nested tables they are bad

[hearn]

No there is nothing wrong with nested Divs. As the person above said nested tables can get nasty at times. Nesting divs is actually coming around as somewhat of an industry standard. Some websites use no tables and only divs with CSS formatting to make the appearance and formatting of a table.

[Weedpacket]

Nested divs (or any way of specifying a hierarchy of styles), as already noted are fine; however, sometimes they're not necessary, and not using them redundantly can clean things up even more. With suitable CSS selectors, one can specify different parts of a page with great precision while using only one or two classes. Often, divs that are used merely to apply a set of style classes can turn out to be unnecessary, as the parts of the page they wrap can be instead identified using other already-existing parts of the page and an appropriate selector.

The drawback to this approach is IE, which is utterly miserable at interpreting CSS selectors.