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Sunday, July 04, 2004

Your standard naming conventions for Website Divs:

Some example standard div names


• Container div: container
• Header or banner div: header
• Main or global navigation div: main-nav
• Left or right side columns: sidebar-a, sidebar-b
• Content div: content
• Footer div: footer

A fuller, more thoughtful list, by Malarkey.

This meme is making the rounds now, expect to see a lot of lightweight "CSS skin" stylesheets that expect this kind of namespace.