Re: [WSG] Are empty divs okay?

[John Oxton]

Hi Shane,
Well, I don't know if it is okay but I've done it on more than one occasion.
I have noticed that Internet explorer puts a nasty margin on empty divs, 
that might be something to watch out for.

J
Shane Helm wrote:
I am working on my second CSS & XHTML site.
Home page thus far: http://sonze.com/lange/index.html
CSS for the page: http://sonze.com/lange/css/master.css
I have some empty div tags to be able to make a graphic a background 
image since this presentation is common to all pages.
For example in my html:
<div id="header3"></div>

My CSS for "header3"> is as follows:
#header3
    {
    position: relative;
    width: 836px;
    height: 37px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding: 0px;
    background: #2A331F url(../img/header3.gif) no-repeat;
    }
Since I this is only my second site using Web Standards, I'm unsure if 
leaving a div tag empty is okay or not.  Or is there another method I 
should be using?

Thank you very much,
Shane Helm
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