The first few words of a paragraph could be in small-caps. Style may also be inlined, such as to change the style of a word like Arial.
The DIV element is defined in HTML 3.2, but only the ALIGN attribute is permitted in HTML 3.2. HTML 4.0 adds the CLASS, STYLE, and ID attributes, among others.
Since DIV may contain other block-level containers, it is useful for marking large sections of a document, such as this note.
The closing tag is required.