<span> tag

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Definition

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The tag has no meaning when used on its own. It is used to group inline-elements in a document, most commonly to apply CSS to specific sections of a page.

Attribute

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Span does NOT require any attributes because it is commonly used to point to a style sheet. If no style sheet is available, or one is not wanted, attributes can be added to the <span> tag to be applied to the selected part of a page.

Example

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<p>This is how you would add a style sheet to <span class="this_style_sheet">this text</span>using the span tag.</p>

Here is how you would add attributes to text using <span> without referencing a style sheet.

You can highlight your text any color you like
<span style="background-color: #FFFF00">You can highlight your text any color you like</span>

You can add colored text
<span style="color: red; font-size: 14pt">You can add colored text</span>

They're many more span tags found here http://www.hypergurl.com/span.html, including mouse over tags, "alt tags" and background image tags.

More examples of <span> can be found here.

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Information used on this page was taken from http://www.htmldog.com and http://www.hypergurl.com.

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