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Container Element

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

Definition:

A Web page is a series of containers, the most inclusive one being the <html> element that contains the entire Web page.

A container element is defined as an element that contains other HTML elements (including text).

Container elements are always block-level elements.

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