Creating Inline Spans
Part of the problem with replacing
the old style tags like <b>, <i>, and <ins> with styles for
individual items is that the style=
argument must be placed within
an existing tag. For example, in the following sentence, how would you avoid using
<b> to make only one word bold?
<p>I had a <b>great</b> time.</p>
The word great does not have any container tags that surround
it alone, so there’s no place to put a style=
argument. The
solution is to use an inline
span. A span is simply a shell into which you can place any arguments
you need. For example, the preceding example could be written as follows to use a
style:
<p>I had a <span style="text-weight: bold">great</span> time.</p>
That’s an awful lot of typing, but there’s a good ...
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