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tag, where CONTENT is typically text and other markup with some restrictions

(e.g. it can not contain any block level elements, e.g. p, table, div, or h1.

elements).

Finally, the most general way to separate the content in a page is to use the

div element, which has the form:

CONTENT

where CONTENT can be any of the HTML elements that can appear in the

body, including p and div elements. The div tag is similar to the p tag except

that a div element can contain a wider variety of tags. The p element should

only be used for paragraphs containing text and images.

2.8

Preformatted text

Browsers, by default, will reformat any text that you provide so that it fits

the page nicely. Thus, if you type a paragraph as one long line, the browsers

will generally add appropriate line breaks. Sometimes however, one wants the

browser to respect the formatting and not to insert any line breaks or remove

any spaces or tabs. This effect is provided using the pre element which has the

form

Pre
Formatted
Content

The preformatted content inside the pre element typically contains images and

text.

2.9

Lists

HTML offers several different types of lists. We consider only two types here:

ul and ol The ul element is used for  unnumbered lists  and has the form:

 Content 

....

 Content 

Observe that the ul element must contain a sequence of li elements, and each

li element can contain any of the HTML elements that can appear in the body.

These lists are rendered with asterisks or bullets or some other non alphanumeric