Most of the tags in hyper-text mark-up language (HTML) have an English word or phrase associated with that tag.
For example, the kbd tag is an abbreviation of the English word keyboard.
What English word or phrase is the div tag an abbreviation of?
Below is an example of code written in HTML which uses the div tag
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>This is a title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
<p>Hello world!</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The DIV element is first defined in the HTML 3.0 standard:
Divisions
The DIV element is used with the CLASS attribute to represent different kinds of containers, e.g. chapter, section, abstract, or appendix.
And in the 3.2 standard:
DIV elements can be used to structure HTML documents as a hierarchy of divisions.
It appears in an example in the 2.0 standard, but is never defined as a valid tag. The 4.0 standard instead describes it as "a generic mechanism for adding structure to documents".
I have always assumed it stood for division.
The tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document.
