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Originally posted by DJKAL
so - the <div> can be used to customise paragraphs and headinhs/= or links differently whiklst only coding it once 
i think 
No, thats what classes are for
Div's act as containers for elements, so you can group them together, which is why they are used so often in modern webdesign, as they allow the coder to group certain elements and position them. Take a look at most div based webdesigns, divs are used to contain the header, and used to seperate multiple columns.
However if you just want to apply the same style to multiple elements you can use the class attribute of the element. See the class selector section of the
css syntax page on w3schools.