How to Define a Section in a Document in HTML

Defining sections in a web page allows you to group content and control how it's displayed. Once a section has been defined, for example, it can easily be centered or otherwise formatted. Sections resemble paragraphs in that they contain text or additional HTML elements.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Text file editor

Define a Section

1. Open your web page document in your web editing program. Position the cursor wherever you want the section to begin.
2. Type the following:
   
   
   . This is the material inside this section of the document:
   
3. Replace "main-section" with a unique name that defines the section and that you will later use to refer to the section in code.
4. Replace "#FF0000" with a hexadecimal number or color name specifying the color you want this section's text to take.
5. Replace "This...section" with all the text, containers, code and controls that you want this section to contain.
6. Close the section with the following: