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Just want to know if it's possible to have a div tag inside the head element?

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    Whether or not an element is a valid child of another can be checked in the specs. For the head element the only valid children are [...]zero or more elements of metadata content, of which no more than one is a title element and no more than one is a base element[...] Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 22:17
  • Does that mean I can have a div tag in the head tag? Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 22:22
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    You mean head not header. header is a different tag. Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 22:22
  • I mean the head tag. Can I have a div tag inside the head tag? Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 22:25
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    I think a bigger question is why in the world would you want to? Commented Oct 26, 2014 at 22:27

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No, <div> is not a valid tag to be inside of the <head> tag, since the <head> tag is only meant to be for metadata (such as title and page description), scripts, styles, and other stuff which isn't meant to be displayed. Although putting it in the <head> works, it's horrible to do so, and you shouldn't put it there (and the specification says that doing that is not valid HTML. Thanks @t.niese); it's invalid HTML

Also, there is no difference between using " or ' for attribute values (such as id in your case), it's just what you prefer. And yes, using ' is completely valid. I like doing that, since I don't have to hold shift, but it's completely up to you.

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