I Don't Understand This Markup

Greetings,

I was looking at the following link:

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:CRulWVVQFE8J:www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm%3Dasdf+asdf&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I was trying to find ways to display the header over a page as they have
done. However, looking at the HTML source, I see they use several <div> tags
that appear prior to the  tag.

Can anyone explain to me why there would be <div> tags outside of the 
area, and how this could work?

Thanks!

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Jonathan Wood
SoftCircuits Programming
http://www.softcircuits.com

Jonathan Wood wrote:The code outside the "html" element was added by Google.

The code outside the "html" element was added by Google. This is
invalid, of course, but browsers do not care about validity very
much.

Google could also have inserted its code after the opening 
tag, but this would be more complex and error-prone.

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