So would a span in your case be an appropriate use for styling the
drop cap inside a <p> tag where another DIV or whatever may be invalid
code?
Basically a span is used within block elements in order to not conflict
with the containing element?
That might make sense.
Adam
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From: Pringle, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; '[email protected]'
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Sent: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:32:23 -0500
Subject: RE: [css-d] Explanation of Spans
I have been sing CSS for the last year and I feel fairly versed in
getting some rather complex sites up and validated. One thing I never
really wrapped my head around just yet is what circumstances
you would
use a <span> style and what it is exactly.
<SNIP>
Anyways, please pass any explanations on. Thanks
Adam
Adam-
I can't offer you a definitive explanation or a when to use and not use
spans, but I can offer you one real-world example.
The only place in the entire municipal site that I manage that I use a
span
is for doing drop caps at the beginning of a page of text.
I enclose the first letter in the paragraph with a span and give it a
.dropcap class.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other uses of span except
for
styling individual text characters within the body of a paragraph.
Ron
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