# `<dita>`

The `<dita>` element provides a top-level container for multiple topics when you create documents using the ditabase document type. The `<dita>` element lets you create any sequence of topics, and the ditabase document type lets you nest these topic types inside each other. The `<dita>` element has no particular output implications; it simply allows you to create multiple topics of different types at the same level in a single document.

Category: Basic topic elements