On 29 Okt., 18:24, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/global.html#h-7.5.4 > I haven't had time to do an exhausitve search but nowhere in the span > tag description does it specifically state what tags it may or may not > enclose.
This part of the DTD is important: <!ELEMENT SPAN - - (%inline;)* -- generic language/style container --> It says, that the span element cannot contain anything but inline elements and text (again from the DTD: "character level elements and text strings"). Reading DTDs is an art of itself and it sucks. Quite good read by the way: http://www.dev-archive.net/articles/xhtml.html --Klaus