OK, I've been using HTML for years now with tables. I still can't seem to understand how to use divs. I'm never able to embed them and I think they're more unstable than tables because it seems they love letting content not push them around and just have content go whatever way it feels like (seems as if content always falls out of its div box) but I've gotten a lot of requests to use divs so where's a good place to explain it all? My biggest issue is I'm not able to embed a div inside of another div so if I could figure that out I'd be pretty much set. Sorry for the nooby question .

Thanks for the replies.

Explaining how divs work on a message board is quite difficult

I would suggest downloading some free CSS templates from http://www.oswd.org and taking a look at the CSS used in those sites. By playing with the CSS you should be able to see how it works, and maybe even borrow some of the code for your own site.


If you need some specific help post your CSS and HTML code and Il'l gladly look into it for you. Probably best to send me a PM pointing me back to thsi topic as I always forget which ones Ive read etc

I agree with Will, tough to figure out what your issues may be w/o seeing some of your coding samples.

biggest issue is I'm not able to embed a div inside of another div

That's easy:
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<p>some text goes in here</p>
</div> <!-- close inner -->
</div> <!-- close outer -->

That's the easy part. How they interact/fit is all in your css and if you use positioning on everything you will have problems - and it's not necessary.

Divs are no more unstable than tables - you just haven't learned enough about CSS