The span tag
The span tag allows you to highlight a piece of text. The tag itself does nothing, but when combined with the attributes class, id or style it allows you to access the text inside it via CSS (for example, to change the color of the text, its size, and so on).
Example
Let's select a piece of text using the span tag, but leave it the same as normal text (since this span has no CSS styles assigned):
this is <span>text inside span</span>
:
Example
Now let's try to assign a red color to the span tag using the style attribute:
this is <span style="color: red;">text inside span</span>,
and this is outside:)
:
See also
-
tag
div,
which allows you to select a whole group of tags
