span?

Perhaps a stupid question:
what for are tags ment for?
and do they have any semantic meaning?

Cheers,
Sam

Re: span?

Samuel van Laere wrote:

> Perhaps a stupid question:
> what for are tags ment for?
> and do they have any semantic meaning?

is typically used for seperating an inline section (containing
text or images) from the rest of the paragraph, such as applying a
different type of style (or CSS class) to that section and/or setting
an ID to it (for purposes of styles or client-side scripting).

Please note that only can contain other inline elements (and not
block-level elements, such as

or