## DIV and CENTER

`DIV` elements can be used to structure HTML documents as a hierarchy of divisions. The `ALIGN` attribute can be used to set the default horizontal alignment for elements within the content of the `DIV` element. Its value is restricted to `LEFT`, `CENTER` or `RIGHT`, and is defined in the same way as for the paragraph element `<P>`.

Note that because `DIV` is a block-like element it will terminate an open `P` element. Other than this, user agents are not expected to render paragraph breaks before and after `DIV` elements. `CENTER` is directly equivalent to `DIV` with `ALIGN=CENTER`. Both `DIV` and `CENTER` require start and end tags.

`CENTER` was introduced by Netscape before they added support for the HTML 3.0 `DIV` element. It is retained in HTML 3.2 on account of its widespread deployment.