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HTML Element: <span>

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The HTML <span> element indicates a section in a document. It is usually defined with its own style.

 

The attributes it can take are HTML global attributes and HTML event attributes.

 

To create or access such an element in JavaScript see here. The corresponding HTML DOM object supports standard DOM properties and methods. The default style applicable to this element is shown here.

 

EXAMPLE:


HTML USED IN THIS EXAMPLE:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html> <!-- Copyright (c) Nematrian Limited 2018 -->
<head></head>
<body>
Created using HTML:<br>
<em><span>spanned text</span></em>

<br><br>Created using JavaScript:<br>
<em id="element"></em>

<script>
var x = document.createElement("SPAN");
x.textContent = "spanned text";
// or use var txt = document.createTextNode("spanned text");
// x.appendChild(txt);
document.getElementById("element").appendChild(x);
</script>

</body>
</html>


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